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Chapter 1 | |
| to the Goddess Prothyraea (Diana) | ||
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O venerable goddess, hear my pray'r, |
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For labour pains are thy peculiar care; |
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in thee, when stretch'd upon the bed of grief, |
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The sex as in a mirror view relief. |
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Guard of the race, endued with gentle mind, |
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To helpless youth, benevolent and kind; |
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Benignant nourisher; great Nature's key |
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Belongs to no divinity but thee. |
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Thou dwell'st with all immanifest to sight, |
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And solemn festivals are thy delight. |
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Thine is the talk to loose the virgin's zone, |
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And thou in ev'ry work art seen and known. |
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With births you sympathize, tho' pleas'd to see |
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The numerous offspring of fertility; |
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When rack'd with nature's pangs and sore distress'd, |
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The sex invoke thee, as the soul's sure rest; |
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For thou alone can'st give relief to pain, |
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Which art attempts to ease, but tries in vain; |
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Assisting goddess, venerable pow'r, |
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Who bring'st relief in labour's dreadful hour; |
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Hear, blessed Dian, and accept my pray'r, |
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And make the infant race thy constant care. |
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