Lyrics of Carmina Burana: II. Fortune plango vulnera - Orquesta Filarmónica De La Mancha

Carmina Burana: II. Fortune plango vulnera (original)

Fortune plango vulnera
stillantibus ocellis
quod sua michi munera
subtrahit rebellis.
Verum est, quod legitur,
fronte capillata,
sed plerumque sequitur
Occasio calvata.
In Fortune solio
sederam elatus,
prosperitatis vario
flore coronatus;
quicquid enim florui
felix et beatus,
nunc a summo corrui
gloria privatus.
Fortune rota volvitur:
descendo minoratus;
alter in altum tollitur;
nimis exaltatus
rex sedet in vertice
caveat ruinam!
nam sub axe legimus
Hecubam reginam.

(translation)

Fortuna
bemoaning
that's his gift to me
robs the rebels.
It is true that we read
fine hair
but usually follows
An opportunity to lose it all.
On the throne of Fortune
i sat puffed up
success by varying
crowned with flower
for whatever blossomed
happy and happy
now I have fallen from the top
deprived of glory.
Fortune's wheel turns
I descend lower;
the other is removed on fire;
exceedingly exalted
the king sits on the top
take care of the fall!
for we read under the axis
Queen Hecuba.