(The fumigation from myrrh)

 

Dark veil'd Latona, much invoked queen,

Twin-bearing Goddess, of a noble mien;

Caeantis great, a mighty mind is thine,

Offspring prolific, blest of Jove divine:

Phoebus proceeds from thee, the God of light,

And Dian fair, whom winged darts delight;

She in Ortygia's honor'd regions born,

In Delos he, which mountains high adorn.

Hear me, O Goddess, with propitious mind,

And end these holy rites, with aspect kind.