Текст и перевод песни Ade - AB Aeterno

AB Aeterno

Ut semel haec rerum secessit lite suarum
Inque novas abiit massa soluta domos
Flamma petit altum propior locus aera cepit
Sederunt medio terra fretumque solo
Tunc ego qui fueram globus et sine imagine moles
In faciem redii dignaque membra deo
Nunc quoque confusae quondam nota parva figurae
Ante quod est in me postque videtur idem
Accipe quesitae quae causa sit altera formae
Hanc simul ut noris officiumque meum
Quicquid ubique vides, caelum, mare, nubila, terras
Omnia sunt nostra clausa patenque manu
Me penes est unum vasta custodia mundi
Et ius vertendi cardines omne meum est
Cum libut pacem placidis emittere tectis
Libera perpetuas ambulat illa vias
Sanguine letifero totus miscebitur orbis

AB Aeterno

When this strife of things had once withdrawn to a truce
And rearranged itself to new homes, freed,
Flame sought higher places, air seized more friendly ones,
Earth settled in the center and water in the flat country
Then I, who had been a globe and a mass without form
Returned to a face and limbs worthy of a god
Now also, of that confused form a small trace still lingers
That which is before me seems also to be after
Receive the cause why my form is now changed
As soon as you know it, as well as my function
Whatever you see everywhere, heaven, sea, clouds, earth
All are enclosed in my hand, both shut and open
The world's vast guardianship is mine alone
And the right to turn the hinges of the universe
When it pleases me to send peace to quiet dwellings
It walks those paths, flowing freely and for eternity
The entire world shall be mixed with the lethal blood of death