Lectio Nona
Language: Latin
Available translation(s): ENG FRE
Quare de vulva eduxisti me?
qui utinam consumptus essem,
ne oculus me videret!
Fuissem quasi non essem,
de utero translatus ad tumulum.
Numquid non paucitas dierum
meorum finietur brevi?
Dimitte me ergo, ut plangam
paululum dolorem meum:
antequam vadam, et non revertar,
ad terram tenebrosam et
opertam mortis caligine,
terram miseriae et tenebrarum,
ubi umbra mortis, et nullus ordo,
sed sempiternus horror inhabitat.
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Neuvième lecture", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Ninth lesson", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille
[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website: 2010-04-05
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Neuvième lecture
Language: French (Français)  after the Latin
Pourquoi m'as-tu sorti de la vulve ?
ah, plaise à Dieu que je soit mort,
qu'aucun œil ne m'ait vu !
J'aurais été comme si je n'étais pas,
transporté de l'utérus au tumulus.
Est-ce que le peu de mes jours
va bientôt finir ?
Laisse-moi donc, que je pleure
un tout petit peu sur ma douleur :
avant que j'aille, et sans me retourner,
vers la terre pleine de ténèbres
et recouverte de la mort sombre,
terre de misère et des ténèbres,
où habite l'ombre de la mort, et nul autre ordre,
qu'une horreur éternelle.
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This text was added to the website: 2010-05-13
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