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.

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.

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 12^th/13^th century ) , no title, appears in Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae, no. 62 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Jan Novák (1921 - 1984), "Dianae lampas", stanza 1, from Cantica latina, no. 25 [sung text checked 1 time]

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• ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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