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DIANAE sumus in fide
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We girls and chaste boys
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puellae et pueri integri:
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are lieges of Diana.
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Dianam pueri integri
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Diana let us sing,
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puellaeque canamus.
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chaste boys and girls.
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o Latonia, maximi
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O child of Latona,
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magna progenies Iouis,
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great offspring of greatest Jove,
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quam mater prope Deliam
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whom thy mother bore
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deposiuit oliuam,
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by the Delian olive-tree,
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montium domina ut fores
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that thou mightest be the lady
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siluarumque uirentium
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of mountains and green woods,
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saltuumque reconditorum
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and sequestered glens
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amniumque sonantum:
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and sounding rivers;
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tu Lucina dolentibus
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thou art called Juno Lucina
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Iuno dicta puerperis,
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by mothers in pains of travail,
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tu potens Triuia et notho es
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thou art called mighty Trivia and Moon
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dicta lumine Luna.
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with counterfeit light.
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tu cursu, dea, menstruo
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Thou goddess, measurest out by monthly course
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metiens iter annuum,
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the circuit of the year,
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rustica agricolae bonis
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thou fillest full with goodly fruits
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tecta frugibus exples.
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the rustic home of the husbandman.
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sis quocumque tibi placet
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Be thou hallowed by whatever name thou wilt;
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sancta nomine, Romulique,
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and as of old thou wert wont,
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antique ut solita es, bona
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with good help keep safe
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sospites ope gentem. |
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the race of Romulus. |