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Originally posted by Melusine:
O, I remembered another one! It's from the Carmina Burana, a selection of songs/writings by 13th century students, vagabonds and other assorted riff raff  , famously put to music by Carl Orff.
O Fortuna, velut luna
Statu variabilis
Semper crescis
Aut decrescis
Vita detestabilis
Nunc obdurat
Et tunc curat
Ludo mentis aciem
Ege statem
Potestatem
Dissolvit ut glaciem
(O 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 like ice.
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Mel! I love Carmina Burana! Thanks for the xlation! Ray Mansomething - keyboardist from The Doors, did an interesting "modern" arrangement of it. I like it, but I like the classical version better.
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