Proserpina's field,
To the foison thy lap overflowing its laurel of Sicily
yield.
Call, assemble the nymphs--hamadryad and dryad--
the echoes who court
From the rock, who the rushes inhabit, in ripples
who swim and disport.
"I admonish you maids--I, his mother, who suckled
the scamp ere he flew--
An ye trust to the Boy flying naked, some pestilent 55
prank ye shall rue."
_Now learn ye to love who loved never--now ye who have
loved, love anew!_

Et rigentibus virentes ducit umbras floribus:
Cras erit quum primus Æther copulavit nuptias,
Et pater totum creavit vernis annum nubibus,
In sinum maritus imber fluxit almæ conjugis, 60
Unde fetus mixtus omnes aleret magno corpore.
Ipsa venas atque mentem permeanti spiritu
Intus occultis gubernat procreatrix viribus,
Perque coelum, perque terras, perque pontum
subditum
Pervium sui tenorem seminali tramite 65

She has coax'd her the shade of the hazel to cover
the wind-flower's birth.
Since the day the Great Father begat it, descending
in streams upon Earth;
When the Seasons were hid in his loins, and the