Lyrics Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi / O Fortuna I - Russian State Symphony Orchestra

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi / O Fortuna I - Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi / O Fortuna I, artist - Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Album song Carmina Burana, in the genre Мировая классика
Date of issue: 27.11.1967
Record label: Revolver
Song language: English

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi / O Fortuna I

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!
O Fortune,
like the moon
you are constantly changing,
ever waxing
and waning;
hateful life
now 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, in health
and virtue,
is against me
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the strong man,
everyone weep with me!

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Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi / O Fortuna 1967
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Artist lyrics: Russian State Symphony Orchestra