CARMINA BURANA - The Chicago Bar Association
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25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OFFICIAL PROGRAM<br />
TEXT<br />
2. Fortune Plango Vulnera<br />
(choir)<br />
Fortune plango vulnera<br />
stillantibus ocellis,<br />
Quod sua michi munera<br />
subtrahit rebellis.<br />
Verum est, quod legitur<br />
fronte capillata,<br />
Sed plerumque sequitur,<br />
Occasio calvata.<br />
In Fortune solio<br />
sederam elatus,<br />
Prosperitatis vario<br />
flore coronatus;<br />
Quicquid enim florui<br />
felix et beatus,<br />
Nunc a summo corrui,<br />
gloria privatus.<br />
Fortune rota volvitur:<br />
descendo minoratus;<br />
Alter in altum tollitur,<br />
nimis exaltatus.<br />
Rex sedet in vertice<br />
caveat ruinam!<br />
Nam sub axe legimus<br />
Hecubam reginam.<br />
2. I lament the wounds that Fortune deals<br />
(choir)<br />
I lament Fortune’s wounds<br />
with dripping eyes,<br />
because her gifts to me<br />
she takes away, rebellious.<br />
It is true, as written,<br />
that Opportunity has gorgeous hair in front,<br />
but it generally follows<br />
that it is bald in back.<br />
On Fortune’s throne<br />
I proudly sat,<br />
crowned with Prosperity’s<br />
many colored flowers;<br />
Yet however much I flourished then,<br />
happy and blessed,<br />
now I have fallen from the top,<br />
deprived of glory.<br />
<strong>The</strong> wheel of Fortune turns:<br />
I sink down, reduced to nothing;<br />
another is raised aloft,<br />
lifted far too high.<br />
<strong>The</strong> king sits at the pinnacle,<br />
let him beware of ruin!<br />
For under Fate’s axle we read the name<br />
of Hecuba the queen [of fallen Troy].<br />
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