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    Author: * Heraklia Aelius - 1 Post on this thread out of 7,303 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Dec 21, 2006 - 11:37

    That has got to be one of the most thrilling bits of music I've ever heard - but playing the quiz made me look for a translation. FWIW, here it is - how very - er - depressing!

    O Fortune, like the moon of ever changing state, you are always waxing or waning; hateful life now is brutal, now pampers our feelings with its game; poverty, power, it melts them like ice.

    Fate, savage and empty, you are a turning wheel, your position is uncertain, your favour is idle and always likely to disappear; covered in shadows and veiled you bear upon me too; now my back is naked through the sport of your wickedness.

    The chance of prosperity and of virtue is not now mine; whether willing or not, a man is always liable for Fortune's service. At this hour without delay touch the strings! Because through luck she lays low the brave, all join with me in lamentation!


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