Diana

“When Diana with lamp of glass
Arises in the evening skies
Soft and glowly pinkly as
Her brothers fires round her die,
Zephyrs gentle breezes often
Force the clouds on high to soften,
Then steal away. . . .”

Anonymous, from the poem Dum Diana vitrea, part of the Carmina Burana, a collection of poems written down in the late thirteenth century which resurfaced in the early 1800s in Bavaria, not far from Munich. From the anthology Lyrics of the Middle Ages, edited by James J. Wilhelm, 1990.
Diana is the moon.

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