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Dum Dianae vitrea
Language: Latin
Dum Dianae vitrea
Sero lampas oritur
Et a fratris rosea
Luce dum succenditur,
Dulcis aura Zephyri
Spirans omnes aetheri
Nubes tollit ;
Sic emollit
[Vi]1 chordarum pectora,
Et immutat
Cor quod nutat
Ad amoris [pignora]2.
[Laetum iubar hesperi
Gratiorem
Dat humorem
Roris soporiferi
Mortalium generi.]3
O quam felix est
Antidotum soporis,
Quod curarum tempestates
Sedat et doloris !
Dum surrepit clausis
Oculorum poris,
Gaudio aequiparat
Dulcedini amoris.
Morpheus in mentem
Trahit impellentem
Ventum lenem
Segetes maturas,
Murmura rivorum
Per arenas puras,
Circulares ambitus
Molendinorum,
Qui furantur somno
Lumen oculorum.
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• J. Novák J. Novák sets stanza 1
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Confirmed with F.A. Wright, Ed., A Book of Latin Prose and Latin Verse, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1929, Page 199.
1 Novák: "Vis"
2 Novák: "pondera"
3 omitted by Novák.
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Word count: 91
When Diana's glass
Language: English after the Latin
When Diana's glass
lantern rises in the evening
and from her brother's rosy
light catches fire,
the West Wind's sweet breeze
scatters with its breath
all the clouds of the sky:
so are breasts
soothed by music's power,
and the heart
transformed, that falters
under the [pledges]1 of love.
[The evening star's luxuriant splendor
the most agreeable
moisture bestows
of sleep-inducing dew
upon the race of mortals.]2
O how happy is
the remedy of sleep,
by which the storms of care
and of pain are allayed!
When it creeps in by the closed
passages of the eyes
it rivals in joy
the sweetness of love.
Into the mind Morpheus
draws the gently
blowing wind
across ripe fields of grain,
the murmurs of streams
through unsullied sands,
the turning round
of millhouses,
which during sleep steal
light from the eyes.
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Translations of titles:
"Dianae lampas" = "Diana's Lantern"
Note for stanza 1, line 1, 'Diana": the goddess of the moon.
Note for stanza 3, line 1, "Morpheus": the god of dreams.
1 Novák: "burdens"
2 omitted by Novák.
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Line count: 35
Word count: 141
