Текст песни Carl Orff - Rafael Fruehbeck de Burgos - Fortune plango vulnera

2. Fortune
plango vulnera

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.
2. mourned wounds
Fate inflicted

I weep for the wounds inflicted by fate,
and my eyes filled with tears,
it makes living gifts,
but I stubbornly bypasses.
It is true that it is written:
her beautiful hair and bright face,
but come closer and consider -
it will be bald.
On the throne of Destiny
I have often been raised,
Surrounded
a sea of ​​flowers well-being;
I could thrive
happy and blessed,
now I fall from this peak,
devoid of glory.

Wheel of Fortune makes a turn;
I find myself at the bottom;
another raised me;
high, too high.
He is now the king -
create and destroy!
And under the axis of the wheel - indescribable beauty
goddess of Hecuba.