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ver novum, ver iam canorum, vere natus orbis est ;
vere concordant amores, vere nubunt alites,
et nemus comam resolvit de maritis imbribus.
cras amorum copulatrix inter umbras arborum
implicat casas virentes de flagello myrteo,
cras Dione iura dicit fulta sublimi throno.

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Fresh Spring, already melodious Spring: the world is born in Spring;
loves harmonize in Spring, birds wed in Spring,
and the forest lets down its hair beneath fertilizing showers.
Tomorrow the uniter of loves, among the shadows of the trees,
weaves verdant huts of myrtle branches,
tomorrow Dione declares the law, seated on her lofty throne.

Note: the text above is taken from stanza 2 of the original text.

Note for stanza 2, line 6: Dione was the mother of the goddess Aphrodite, the Greek equivalent of Venus, but in Roman poetry her name was often used to refer to Venus/Aphrodite herself.

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