The sun tempers all things | The sun tempers all things

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Omnia sol temperat

Language: Latin

Our translations: ENG ITA SPA

Omnia sol temperat
purus et subtilis,
novo mundo reserat
facies Aprilis;
ad amorem properat
animus herilis
et iocundis imperat
deus puerilis.

Rerum tanta novitas
in solemni vere
et veris auctoritas
iubet nos gaudere;
vias prebet solitas,
et in tuo vere
fides est et probitas
tuum retinere.

Ama me fideliter !
Fidem meam nota:
de corde totaliter
et ex mente tota
sum presentialiter
absens in remota.
Quisquis amat taliter,
volvitur in rota.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, appears in Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae, first published c1300 [author's text not yet checked 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 Carl Orff (1895 - 1982), "Omnia sol temperat", 1935-6 [ baritone ], from Carmina Burana, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "The sun tempers all things", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Riscalda il sole ogni cosa", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Saúl Botero Restrepo) , "Todo lo calienta el Sol", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2011-04-24
Line count: 24
Word count: 70

The sun tempers all things

Language: English after the Latin

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The sun tempers all things,
pure and gentle,
it unveils to the new world
the face of April;
a young man's spirit 
makes haste towards love
and the amicable are ruled 
by the boy god.

Such renewal of the world 
in festive Spring
and the influence of Spring 
bids us to rejoice;
it offers familiar ways
and in your Spring 
it is loyalty and honesty
to keep what is yours.

Love me faithfully! 
Be aware of my loyalty:
with my whole heart
and with all my mind
I am with you 
even when far away. 
Whoever loves in such a way
is turned on the wheel.

Note for stanza 1, line 8, "boy god": Cupid.
Note for stanza 3, line 8, "turned on the wheel": simultaneously a reference to the wheel of Fortune, and to the torture mechanism known as St. Catherine's wheel.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Latin to English copyright © 2026 by Grant Hicks, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf.

Based on:

a text in Latin by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , appears in Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae, first published c1300
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This text was added to the website: 2026-09-16
Line count: 24
Word count: 106