Tempus Transit Gelidum

Time Passes Cold

Tempus Transit Gelidum

Time passes coldTempus transit gelidum
The world is renewedMundus renovatur
Spring returns flourishingVerque redit floridum
Form is given to thingsForma rebus datur
Birds singAvis modulatur
Singing joyfullyModulans letatur
The air is now clearer and milderLucidior et lenior aer iam serenatur
Now the flowery and leafy forest thickensIam florea iam frondea silva comis densatur

Maidens playLudunt super gramina
AdornedVirgines decore
Whose new songsQuarum nova carmina
Sound sweetly from their mouthsDulci sonant ore
They announce with favorAnnuunt favore
Birds singVoluchres canore
They favor with scentFavent et odore
The earth painted with flowersTellus picta flore

Therefore the heart is surrounded and touched by loveCor igitur et scingitur et tangitur amore
With maidens and birds singing loudlyVirginibus et avibus strepentibus sonore

Now the boy stretchesTendit modo recia
With a quiverPuer pharetratus
Who serves in the courtQui deorum curia
Of the godsPrebet famulatus
Whose dominionCuius dominatus
Is too wideNimium est latus
Through him conqueredPer hunc triumphatus
I am both triumphant and woundedSum et sauciatus
I had fought and resisted fiercelyPugnaveram et fueram inprimis reluctatus
And again through the boy I am prostrated to VenusEt iterum per puerum sum veneri prostratus