Nova

WATER NIGHT
Text: Octavio Paz, English version by Muriel Rukeyser

Night with the eyes of a horse that trembles in the night,
night with eyes of water in the field asleep
is in your eyes, a horse that trembles,
is in your eyes of secret water.

Eyes of shadow-water,
eyes of well-water,
eyes of dream-water.

Silence and solitude,
two little animals moon-led
drink in your eyes,
drink in those waters.

If you open your eyes,
night opens doors of musk,
the secret kingdom of the water opens
flowing from the centre of the night.

And if you close your eyes,
a river fills you from within,
flows forward, darkens you:
night brings its wetness
to beaches in your soul.

Text: Octavio Paz

The evening hangs beneath the moon,
a silver thread on darkened dune.
With closing eyes and resting head,
I know that sleep is coming soon.

Upon my pillow, safe in bed,
a thousand pictures fill my head.
I cannot sleep, my mind's aflight,
and yet my limbs seem made of lead.

If there are noises in the night,
a frightening shadow, flickering light;
then I surrender unto sleep,
where clouds of dream give second sight.

What dreams may come, both dark and deep,
of flying wings and soaring leap
as I surrender unto sleep.

Text: Charles Anthony Silvestri

Богородице Дево, радуйся,
Благодатная Марие, Господь с Тобою;
благословена Ты в женах
и благословен плод чрева Твоего,
яко Спаса родила еси душ наших.

Text: Traditional

Tota pulchra es, Maria,
et macula originalis non est in te.
Vestimentum tuum candidum quasi nix,
et facies tua sicut sol.
Tu gloria Jerusalem, tu laetitia Israel,
tu honorificentia populi nostri.

Text: Anonymous

Ave maris stella, Dei Mater alma,
atque semper virgo, felix caeli porta.

Sumens illud Ave Gabrielis ore,
funda nos in pace, mutans Hevae nomen.

Solve vincla reis, profer lumen caecis,
mala nostra pelle, bona cuncta posce.

Monstra te esse matrem,
sumat per te preces,
qui pro nobis natus, tulit esse tuus.

Virgo singularis, inter omnes mitis,
nos culpis solutos,
mites fac et castos.

Vitam praesta puram, iter para tutum,
ut videntes Jesum, semper collaetemur.

Sit laus Deo Patri, summo Christo decus,
Spiritui Sancto tribus honor unus. Amen.

Ave, gratia plena! Dominus tecum!
Benedicta tu in mulieribus!

Text: Anonymous

Ave Virgo sanctissima,
Dei Mater piissima,
maris stella clarissima.

Salve, semper gloriosa,
margarita pretiosa,
sicut lilium formosa,
nitens, olens velut rosa.

Text: Unknown

Deus, qui illuminas omnem hominem
venientem in hunc mundum;
illumina, quaesumus, corda nostra
gratiae tuae splendore
ut digna ac placita maiestati
tuae cogitare semper,
et te sincere diligere valeamus.
Amen.

Text: Roman Catholic text

O crux splendidior cunctis astris,
mundo celebris,
hominibus multum amabilis,
sanctior universis.
Quae sola fuisti
digna portare talentum mundi.
Dulce lignum,
dulces clavos,
dulcia ferens pondera;
Salva praesentem catervam
in tuis hodie laudibus congregatam.

Text: Venantius Fortunatus

Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods and to compounds strange?

Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth and where they did proceed?

O, know, sweet love, I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent.

For as the sun is daily new and old,
So is my love still telling what is told.

Text: William Shakespeare

Nemo saltat sobrius
nisi forte insanit.

Text: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Trilo!
Här är han!
Nära land!

Text: Traditional