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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Christe, qui lux es et dies
Language: Latin 
Our translations:  ENG
Triplum
Christe, qui lux es et dies
Fideliumque requies
Nos visita.
Tu furoris temperies
Tu dulcoris planities
Nunc excita.
Posse tuum precipita
Depredentes qui nos ita
Vituperant.
Sicut per te fruit vita
Patribus nostris reddita,
Qui tunc erant
Nec tueri se poterant,
Sed ad te reclamaverant,
Deus fortis,
Sic cave, ne nos atterant
Qui nos in guerris lacerant
Nunc subortis,
Et adire nexu mortis,
Cuius sumus jam in portis,
Nos protegas.
Gentem serves tue sortis,
Tui fratris ac consortis
Causam regas
Qui malos a te segregas
Nec justis opem denegas,
Legis lator.
Proditores nunc detegas
Horumque visum contegas,
Consolator,
Danielis visitator
Puerorumque salvator
In fornace,
Per abacuth confortator.
Sis pro nobis preliator
Et dimittas nos in pace.

Motetus
Veni, creator spiritus
Flentium audi gemitus,
Quos nequiter gens misera
Destruit; veni, [prospera]1.
Jam nostra virtus deficit
Nec os humanum sufficit
Ad narrandum obprobria
Que nobis dant vecorida,
Diviso, cupiditas
Fideliumque raritas,
Unde flentes ignoramus
Quid agere debeamus.
Circumdant nos inimici,
Sed et nostri domestici
Conversi sunt in predones:
Leopardi et leones,
Lupi, milvi et aquile
Rapiunt omne reptile.
Consumunt nos carbunculi,
Ad te nostri sunt oculi:
Perde gentem hanc rapacem,
Jhesu, redemptor seculi,
Et da nobis pacem.

Tenor:
Tribulatio proxima est et non est qui adjuvet.

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1 in another edition, "propera"

Text Authorship:

  • by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377) [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377), "Christe, qui lux es et dies" [four-part chorus], motet [
     text verified 2 times
    ]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "O Christ, who are light and day", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 63
Word count: 207

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