The Odes and Carmen Saeculare/Book 3/Part 22

by Quintus Horatius Flaccus

XXII.

Montium custos.

GUARDIAN of hill and woodland, Maid,
Who to young wives in childbirth's hour
Thrice call'd, vouchsafest sovereign aid,
O three-form'd power!
This pine that shades my cot be thine;
Here will I slay, as years come round,
A youngling boar, whose tusks design
The side-long wound.