SONGS FROM BENEDIKTBEUREN

Secular songs for soloists and choir accompanied by instruments and stage pictures

FORTUNE , EMPRESS OF THE WORLD

O Fortune　

Chorus

　O Fortune ,

like the moon you are changeable ,

ever waxing and waning ;

hateful life first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it ;

poverty and power it melts them like ice .

Fate - monstrous and empty ,

you whirling wheel ,

you are malevolent ,

well-being is in vain and always fades to nothing ,

shadowed and veiled you plague me too ;

now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy .

Fate is against me in health and virtue ,

driven on and weighted down ,

always enslaved .

So at this hour without delay pluck the vibrating strings ;

since Fate strikes down the strong man ,

everyone weep with me !

SONGS WOODLAND歌曲園林