The Crowne of All Homers Workes/To Diana

by Homer

To Diana.

iana praise (Muse) that in Darts delights;
Liues still a Maid; & had nutritiall rights
With her borne-Brother, the farr-shooting Sunn.
That doth her all of Gold-made-Chariot runn
In Chace of Game; from Meles that abounds
In black-browd Bull-rushes; (and where her Hounds,
She first vncouples; ioyning there, her Horse)
Through Smyrna; carried in most fiery course
To Grape-rich Claros. Where (in his rich home,
And constant expectation she will come)
Sits Phœbus, that the siluer Bowe doth beare;
To meete with Phœbe, that doth Darts transferre
As farr as He his shafts. As farr then, be
Thy chaste Fame shot (O Queene of Archerie)
Sacring my song, to euery Deitie.