O Fortuna
O Fortuna, velut luna, statu variabilis.
Semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis
Nunc obdurat, et tunc curat, ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem.
Sors immanis et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus, vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
Obumbrata et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.
Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria,
est affectus et defectus semper in angaria.
Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite!
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Oh Fortune
Oh Fortune, like the moon you are changeable.
Ever waxing and waning; hateful life
first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it;
poverty and power it melts them like ice.
Fate - monstrous and empty,
you whirling wheel, you are malevolent,
well-being is vain and always fades to nothing,
shadowed and veiled you plague me too;
now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy.
Fate is against me
in health and virtue,
driven on and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate strikes down the string man,
everyone weep with me!
O Fortuna, velut luna, statu variabilis.
Semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis
Nunc obdurat, et tunc curat, ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem.
Sors immanis et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus, vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
Obumbrata et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.
Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria,
est affectus et defectus semper in angaria.
Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite!
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Oh Fortune
Oh Fortune, like the moon you are changeable.
Ever waxing and waning; hateful life
first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it;
poverty and power it melts them like ice.
Fate - monstrous and empty,
you whirling wheel, you are malevolent,
well-being is vain and always fades to nothing,
shadowed and veiled you plague me too;
now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy.
Fate is against me
in health and virtue,
driven on and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate strikes down the string man,
everyone weep with me!