Carmina Burana, Pt. II. in Taberna: "Estuans interius" - Berliner Philharmoniker , Thomas Hampson traduction en anglais

Carmina Burana, Pt. II. in Taberna: "Estuans interius"

Estuans interius
Ira vehementi
In amaritudine
Loquor mee menti:
Factus de materia,
Cinis elementi
Similis sum folio,
De quo ludunt venti.

Cum sit enim proprium
Viro sapienti
Supra petram ponere
Sedem fundamenti,
Stultus ego comparor
Fluvio labenti,
Sub eodem tramite
Nunquam permanenti.

Feror ego veluti
Sine nauta navis,
Ut per vias aeris
Vaga fertur avis;
Non me tenent vincula,
Non me tenet clavis,
Quero mihi similes
Et adiungor pravis.

Mihi cordis gravitas
Res videtur gravis;
Iocus est amabilis
Dulciorque favis;
Quicquid Venus imperat,
Labor est suavis,
Que nunquam in cordibus
Habitat ignavis.

Via lata gradior
More iuventutis
Inplicor et vitiis
Immemor virtutis,
Voluptatis avidus
Magis quam salutis,
Mortuus in anima
Curam gero cutis.

Carmina Burana, Pt. II. in Taberna: "Estuans interius"

Burning within
With vehement anger
In bitterness
I speak to my mind:
Made of matter,
Ashes of the elements
I am like a leaf,
With which the winds play.

For it is proper
For a wise man
To place upon a rock
The seat of his foundation,
I, a fool, am compared
To a flowing river,
Under the same path
Never remaining.

I am carried away like
A ship without a sailor,
As through the ways of the air
A vagrant bird is carried;
No bonds hold me,
No key holds me,
I seek those like me
And I join the wicked.

The heaviness of my heart
Seems a heavy thing to me;
Jest is lovable
And sweeter than honey;
Whatever Venus commands,
Labor is sweet,
Which never in hearts
Dwells in the lazy.

I walk the broad way
In the manner of youth
I am entangled in vices
Unmindful of virtue,
Greedy for pleasure
More than for salvation,
Dead in my soul
I care for my skin.