PLANCTUS CYGNI
featuring The Choir of The Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul; Ms. Léa Moisan-Perrier
LYRICS
Clangam, filii
Ploratione una
Cygni,
Qui transfretavit aequora.
O quam amare lamentabatur, arida
Se dereliquisse
Florigera
Et petisse alta Maria;
Ajens: ‘Infelix sum
Avicula,
Heu mihi, quid agam
Misera?
Procellis hinc inde nunc allidor Exulata.
Undis quatior,
Dum haec cogitarem tacita,
Venit rutila adminicula aurora.
Regi magno
Sit gloria.
O children,
I shall sing a lamentation
Swan
which crossed the great waters.
O how bitterly it lamented,
having relinquished
the dry flowery land
and sought the high seas;
crying: ‘Unhappy
small bird that I am,
alas, what may I do
in my misery?
Storms buffet me hither and thither
an exile.
I am shaken by the waves,
While the bird fell silent, thinking on these things
Came the first blush of rescuing dawn.
To the mighty King
be glory.
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours,
and I will tell you mine.
Mary Oliver
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