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Monday, June 12, 2006
I Love Latin (II)
Still on Latin, here's a Baudelaire poem ('Francescae Meae Laudes') in that language, flanked by some images of Paris by Atget. I'd post a translation except I haven't found any I like.
Novis te cantabo chordis,
O novelletum quod ludis
In solitudine cordis.
Esto sertis implicata,
Ô femina delicata
Per quam solvuntur peccata!
Sicut beneficum Lethe,
Hauriam oscula de te,
Quae imbuta es magnete.
Quum vitiorum tempestas
Turbabat omnes semitas,
Apparuisti, Deitas,
Velut stella salutaris
In naufragiis amaris.....
Suspendam cor tuis aris!
Piscina plena virtutis,
Fons æternæ juventutis
Labris vocem redde mutis!
Quod erat spurcum, cremasti;
Quod rudius, exaequasti;
Quod debile, confirmasti.
In fame mea taberna
In nocte mea lucerna,
Recte me semper guberna.
Adde nunc vires viribus,
Dulce balneum suavibus
Unguentatum odoribus!
Meos circa lumbos mica,
O castitatis lorica,
Aqua tincta seraphica;
Patera gemmis corusca,
Panis salsus, mollis esca,
Divinum vinum, Francisca!
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"Latin me that, my trinity scholard, out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan! Hircus Civis Eblanensis! ..."
from good old finnegans wake!
cheers
chairs
Latin O silver tongue of it....
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