Song Cycle by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

English translation: Three Latin Songs for Students

1. Ecce novum gaudium

Authorship

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

Ecce novum gaudium,
Ecce novum mirum,
Virgo parit filium,
Qvae non novit virum,
Qvae non novit virum,
Sed ut pyrus pyrum,
Gleba fert papyrum
Florens lilium.
  Ecce qvod natura
  Mutat sua jura,
  Virgo parit pura,
  Dei filium.

Mundum Deus flebilem
Cernens in ruina,
Rosam delectabilem
Produxit de spina,
Produxit de spina,
Natum de regina,
Qui et medicina,
Salus gentium.
  Ecce qvod natura
  Mutat sua jura,
  Virgo parit pura,
  Dei filium.

Nequivit divinitas
Plus humiliari,
Nec nostra carnalitas
Magis exaltari,
Magis exaltari,
Deo coaequari,
Coelo collocari,
Per conjugium.
  Ecce qvod natura
  Mutat sua jura,
  Virgo parit pura,
  Dei filium.

2. Angelus emittitur

Authorship

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

Angelus emittitur,
Ave dulce promitur,
Semen Dei seritur,
Igitur Porta coeli panditur.

Vim Natura patitur,
Filius concipitur,
Virgo non corrumpitur,
Igitur Porta coeli panditur.

Grex in nocte pascitur,
Coeli lumen funditur,
Laus in altis canitur,
Igitur Porta coeli panditur.

3. In stadio laboris

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by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

In stadio laboris
Currunt omnes socii;
Sed bravium honoris,
Non seqvuntur singuli.
  Si non vis onerari,
  Caveas honorari,
  Honor vult onere gravari.

Sicut dulcedo mellis
Non evacuabitur
Acerbitasque fellis
Nunquam relaxibitur
  Sic et in praelatura,
  Nullus est sine cura,
  Rerum hoc exigit Natura.

Sed si in libertate
Vivere volueris, 
Vivas in caritate,
Sic tu non dolueris,
  Nil habes, nil dolebis,
  Perditum neque flebis,
  Sed in hoc qvod habes, guadebis.

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