![Day 312/366: To Selene
To Selene Hear, Goddess queen, diffusing silver light, bull-horn’d and wand’ring thro’ the gloom of Night. With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide Night’s torch extending, thro’ the heav’ns you ride: Female and Male with borrow’d rays you shine, and now full-orb’d, now tending to decline. Mother of ages, fruit-producing Moon [Mene], whose amber orb makes Night’s reflected noon: Lover of horses, splendid, queen of Night, all-seeing pow’r bedeck’d with starry light. Lover of vigilance, the foe of strife, in peace rejoicing, and a prudent life: Fair lamp of Night, its ornament and friend, who giv’st to Nature’s works their destin’d end. Queen of the stars, all-wife Diana hail! Deck’d with a graceful robe and shining veil; Come, blessed Goddess, prudent, starry, bright, come moony-lamp with chaste and splendid light, Shine on these sacred rites with prosp’rous rays, and pleas’d accept thy suppliant’s mystic praise. Orpheus](http://24.media.tumblr.com/558c9fc3b1d55af829b498fec0cdbb77/tumblr_mf8aj9hSrF1r9p4eko1_500.jpg)
To Selene
Hear, Goddess queen, diffusing silver light, bull-horn’d and
wand’ring thro’ the gloom of Night.
With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide Night’s torch
extending, thro’ the heav’ns you ride:
Female and Male with borrow’d rays you shine, and now full-orb’d,
now tending to decline.
Mother of ages, fruit-producing Moon [Mene], whose amber orb
makes Night’s reflected noon:
Lover of horses, splendid, queen of Night, all-seeing pow’r bedeck’d
with starry light.
Lover of vigilance, the foe of strife, in peace rejoicing, and a prudent
life:
Fair lamp of Night, its ornament and friend, who giv’st to Nature’s
works their destin’d end.
Queen of the stars, all-wife Diana hail! Deck’d with a graceful robe
and shining veil;
Come, blessed Goddess, prudent, starry, bright, come moony-lamp
with chaste and splendid light,
Shine on these sacred rites with prosp’rous rays, and pleas’d accept
thy suppliant’s mystic praise.
Orpheus
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