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Alcuin of York
Works 8
Latin original · 3 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss
8:1
O mea cella, mihi habitatio dulcis, amata, semper in aeternum, o mea cella, vale. Undique te cingit ramis resonantibus arbos, silvula florigeris semper onusta comis. Prata salutiferis florebunt omnia et herbis, quas medici quaerit dextra salutis ope. Flumina te cingunt florentibus undique ripis, retia piscator qua sua tendit ovans. Pomiferis redolent ramis tua claustra per hortos, lilia cum rosulis candida mixta rubris. Omne genus volucrum matutinas personat odas, atque creatorem laudat in ore deum. In te personuit quondam vox alma magistri, quae sacro sophiae tradidit ore libros. In te temporibus certis laus sancta tonantis pacificis sonuit vocibus atque animis.
O my cell, my sweet, beloved dwelling, forever and to all eternity, O my cell, farewell. On every side the tree girds you with resounding branches, the little wood ever laden with flowering foliage. The meadows will all bloom with health-bearing herbs, which the physician's hand seeks for the aid of health. Rivers gird you with flowering banks on every side, where the fisherman, rejoicing, spreads his nets. Your enclosures are fragrant with fruit-bearing branches throughout the gardens, white lilies mingled with red little roses. Every kind of bird sounds forth its morning songs, and praises God the Creator with its mouth. In you once resounded the kindly voice of the master, which delivered the books of wisdom with holy mouth. In you, at appointed times, the holy praise of the Thunderer sounded forth with peaceful voices and spirits.
我的小室啊，我甜美、所愛的居所，永遠直到永永遠遠，我的小室啊，珍重再見。樹木以發響的枝子四面環繞你，那小樹林永遠滿載著開花的葉。眾草場必都以醫病的草開花，就是醫生的手為著健康之助所尋求的。河流以開花的兩岸四面環繞你，漁夫在那裡歡然撒網。你的院落在各園中因結果子的枝子而馨香，白百合與紅色的小玫瑰相間。各樣的飛鳥都唱出牠們清晨的歌，並以口讚美造物之神。在你中間，從前曾響起夫子慈愛的聲音，以聖潔的口傳授智慧的書卷。在你中間，在定時，那發雷者神聖的讚美以和平的聲音與心靈響起。
8:2
Te, mea cella, modo lacrimosis plango camenis, atque gemens casus pectore plango tuos. Tu subito quoniam fugisti carmina vatum, atque ignota manus te modo tota tenet. Te modo nec Flaccus nec vatis Homerus habebit, nec pueri musas per tua tecta canunt. Vertitur omne decus secli sic namque repente omnia mutantur ordinibus variis. Nil manet aeternum, nihil immutabile vere est. Obscurat sacrum nox tenebrosa diem, decutit et flores subito hiems frigida pulcros, perturbat placidum et tristior aura mare. Quae campis cervos agitabat sacra iuventus incumbit fessus nunc baculo senior. Nos miseri, cur te fugitivum, mundus, amamus? Tu fugis a nobis semper ubique ruens.
You, my cell, I now bewail with tearful songs, and groaning I bewail your downfall from my heart. For you have suddenly fled the songs of the poets, and now an unknown hand holds you wholly. Now neither Flaccus nor the bard Homer will possess you, nor do the boys sing the Muses through your halls. Thus all the glory of the age is turned suddenly; all things are changed by varied orderings. Nothing remains eternal, nothing is truly unchangeable. The dark night obscures the sacred day, and cold winter suddenly strikes down the fair flowers, and a sadder breeze disturbs the calm sea. The holy youth that used to drive the stags across the fields now, weary, leans aged upon a staff. Wretched are we — why, O world, do we love you, fugitive that you are? You flee from us, ever everywhere rushing away.
我的小室啊，我如今以含淚的詩歌哀悼你，呻吟著從心中哀悼你的傾覆。因為你忽然逃離了詩人的歌唱，如今有一隻陌生的手全然轄制著你。如今無論是弗拉庫斯或詩人荷馬都不能擁有你，男孩們也不在你的廳堂中歌頌繆思。這世代一切的榮美就這樣忽然翻轉；萬物都因各樣不同的次序而改變。沒有甚麼存到永遠，沒有甚麼是真正不變的。黑暗的夜遮蔽神聖的白晝，寒冷的冬天忽然擊落美麗的花，更愁慘的風攪亂平靜的海。那曾在田野追趕鹿群的聖潔青春，如今疲乏年邁，倚靠在杖上。我們可憐哪——世界啊，你既是逃亡的，我們為何愛你？你總是各處從我們面前奔逃而去。
8:3
Tu fugiens fugias, Christum nos semper amemus. Semper amor teneat pectora nostra dei. Ille pius famulos diro defendat ab hoste ad caelum rapiens pectora nostra, suos. Pectore quem pariter toto laudemus, amemus. Nostra est ille pius gloria, vita, salus.
As you flee, let you flee away; let us ever love Christ. Let the love of God forever hold our hearts. May He, the merciful, defend His servants from the dread enemy, snatching to heaven our hearts, His own. Let us with our whole heart alike praise and love Him: He, the merciful one, is our glory, our life, our salvation.
你既要逃，就任憑你逃去罷；願我們永遠愛基督。願神的愛永遠據有我們的心。願那滿有憐憫的，保護祂的僕人脫離那可怕的仇敵，將我們的心——就是屬祂自己的——奪取到天上。願我們以全心一同讚美並愛祂：那滿有憐憫的，就是我們的榮耀、我們的生命、我們的救恩。