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Tempro la cetra, e per cantar gli onori Di Marte alzo talor lo stil e i carmi. Ma invan la tento e impossibil parmi Ch'ella già mai risoni altro ch'amore. Così pur tra l'arene e pur tra' fiori Note amorose Amor torna a dettarmi, Né vuol ch'io prend' ancora a cantar d'armi, Se non di quelle, ond'egli impiaga i cori. Or umil plettro a i rozzi accenti indegni, Musa, qual dianzi, accorda, in fin ch'al canto De la tromba sublime il Ciel ti degni. Riedi a i teneri scherzi, e dolce intanto Lo Dio guerrier, temprando i feri sdegni, In grembo a Citerea dorma al tuo canto.
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Ich stimme die Lyra. Um Mars zu lobpreisen, zuweilen ich höherer Kunst mich besinne; doch schlag' ich umsonst sie, nie wird sich's erweisen, dass je sie erklinge für andres denn Minne. So heißet mich Amor, in Lauben, auf Plätzen, nichts andres zu spielen als Cupidos Weise: er will nicht, dass andere Waffen ich preise als jene, mit denen er Herzen verletzet. Mit Demut, o Muse, wie einst, musiziere mit Zartheit und Würde, dass gleich der Posaune erhabenem Klange der Himmel dich ziere. Heb an dein zart' Spielen, dass Mars, Gott des Krieges, den Jähzorn bezähmend besänftigt mag schlafen zu deinem Gesange im Schoß Aphrodites.
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