Paroles et traduction Corvus Corax feat. Ingeborg Schöpf & Klaus Lothar Peters - De Mundi Statu

De Mundi Statu

Mundus est in varium sepe variatus
Et a status ordine sui degradatus:
Ordo mundi penitus est inordinatus,
Mundus nomine tenus stat, sed est prostratus.
Sperabamus, quod adhuc quisquam remaneret,
Mundum qui precipitem dando sustineret,
Pleno cornu copie munera preberet,
Nomen largie, sed et rem, quod plus est, haberet.
Mundus ergo labitur, nullus hunc sustentat;
Currit, cadit, corruit, quis eum retentat,
Largitatis semitas nemo iam frequentat
Actus largi strenuos nemo representat
Hec dum nudo nudam se propter hoc iniungit,
Manu, lingua, labiis palpat, lingit, ungit;
At venus medullitus scalpit, prurit, pungit!

The State of the World

The world is often tossed
And reduced below the order of its status:
The order of the world is completely disordered,
The world still stands by name, but it is prostrate.
We hoped, that some one still remains,
Who, by giving, would sustain the headlong world,
Would offer the gifts of plenty from a full horn,
And, what is more, would have the name, but also the thing.
Therefore the world is falling, no one sustains it;
It runs, it falls, it collapses, who restrains it,
No one now frequents the paths of generosity
No one presents the strenuous acts of generosity.
This naked one, while joining herself on account of this to the naked one,
With hand, tongue, and lips, she feels, licks, anoints him;
But Venus scratches, itches, and pricks deep down!