Charge of the Goddess
When I have departed from this world,
Whenever ye have need of anything,
Once in a month, and when the Moon is full,
Ye shall assemble in some desert pace,
Or in a forest all together join
To adore the potent spirit of your queen,
My Mother, great Diana. She who fain
Would learn all sorcery yet has not won
Its deepest secrets them my mother
Teach her, in truth all things as yet unknown
And ye shall all be free from slavery,
And so ye shall be free in everything:
And as the sign that ye are truly free,
Ye shall be nakein your rites, both men
And women also: this shall last until
The last of your oppressors shall be dead:
And ye shall make a game of Benevento,
Extinguishing the lights, and after that
Shall hold your supper thus.
