of our revels, our dances--three
nights that we weave in a troop
Arm-in-arm thro' thy sanctu'ries whirling, till faint
and dispersed in the grove
We lie with thy lilies for chaplets, thy myrtles for
arbours of love:
And Apollo, with Ceres and Bacchus to chorus--
song, harvest, and wine--
Hymns thee dispossess'd, "'Tis Dione who reigns! 45
Let Diana resign!"
O, the wonderful nights of Dione! dark bough,
with her star shining thro'!
_Now learn ye to love who loved never--now ye who have
loved, love anew!_

Jussit Hyblaeis tribunal stare diva floribus;
Praeses ipsa jura dicit, adsederunt Gratiae.
Hybla, totos funde floras quidquid annus adtulit; 50
Hybla, florum rumpe vestem quantus AEtnae campus est.

Ruris hic erunt puellae, vel puellae montium,
Quaeque silvas, quaeque lucos, quaeque fontes incolunt:

Jussit omnes adsidere mater alitis dei,
Jussit et nudo puellas nil Amori credere. 55

_Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; quique amavit cras amet._
She has set up her court, has Our Lady, in Hybla,
and deckt it with blooms:--
With the Graces at hand for assessors Dione dispenses
her dooms.
Now burgeon, O Hybla! put forth and abound, till 50
Proserpina's field,
To the foison thy lap overflowing its laurel of Sicily
yield.
Call, assemble the nymphs--hamadryad and dryad--
the echoes who court
From the rock, who the rushes inhabit, in ripples
who swim and disport.
"I admonish you maids--I, his mother, who suckled
the scamp ere he flew--
An ye trust to the Boy flying naked, some pestilent 55
prank ye shall rue."
_Now learn ye to love who loved never--now ye who have
loved, love anew!_

Et rigentibus virentes ducit umbras floribus:
Cras erit quum primus AEther copulavit nuptias,
Et pater totum creavit vernis annum nubibus,
In sinum maritus imber fluxit almae conjugis, 60
Unde fetus mixtus omnes aleret magno corpore.
Ipsa venas atque mentem permeanti spiritu
Intus occultis gubernat procreatrix viribus,
Perque coelum, perque terras, perque pontum
subditum
Pervium sui tenorem seminali tramite 65

She has coax'd her the shade of the hazel to cover
the wind-flower's birth.
Since the day the Great Father begat it, descending
in streams upon Earth;
When the Seasons were hid in his loins, and the
Earth lay recumbent, a wife,
To receive in the searching and genital shower the 60
soft secret of life.
As the te