TO DIANA

O virgin, tri-formed goddess fair,

The guardian of the groves and hills,

Who hears the girls in their despair

Cry out in childbirth's cruel ills,

And saves them from the Stygian flow!

Let the pine-tree my cottage near

Be sacred to thee evermore,

That I may give to it each year

With joy the life-blood of the boar,

Now thinking of the sidelong blow.