O Fortuna - Carmina Burana
Semper crescis, aut decrescis;
Vita detestabilis
Nunc obdurat at 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!
O Fortune - Songs of Beuern
Always you increase, or decrease;
Detestable life
Now hard and then kind
I play the game of the mind,
Poverty, power
It dissolves like ice
Fate, monstrous and empty
You whirling wheel,
Evil state, vain salvation
Always dissoluble
Shaded and veiled
You strive also for me;
Now through the game, bare back
I bear your wickedness.
Fate is against me
In health and virtue
Driven on and weighted down
Always enslaved.
In this hour without delay
Touch the beating heart;
Which fate crushes the strong,
Mourn with me all!