Sibylle d'Europe | Du corps d'une vierge viendra l'éternel Verbe

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Sibylla Europaea

Language: Latin

Our translations: ENG FIN FRE

Virginis aeternum veniet de corpore verbum purum.
Qui valles et montes transiet altos,
Ille volens etiam stellato missus olympo
Edetur mundo pauper, 
qui cuncta silenti rex erit imperio.
Sic credo et memo fatebor:
Humano simul et divino semine natus.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, from a medieval compilation of Jewish, Christian and pagan sources. [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 Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594), "Sibylla Europaea", published 1578, from Prophetiae Sibyllarum, no. 10 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , "The European Oracle", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Sibylle d'Europe", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 7
Word count: 39

Sibylle d'Europe

Language: French (Français) after the Latin

Du corps d'une vierge viendra l'éternel Verbe
Pur, qui passera les vallées et les hautes montagnes,
Lui aussi volant, envoyé de l'Olympe étoilé,
Pauvre il naîtra au monde,
Lui qui dans un pouvoir silencieux sera le roi de tout.
Ainsi je crois et je reconnaîtrai :
Il est né d'une semence humaine en même temps que divine.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Latin to French (Français) copyright © 2010 by Guy Laffaille, (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. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in Latin by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , from a medieval compilation of Jewish, Christian and pagan sources.
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This text was added to the website: 2010-04-05
Line count: 7
Word count: 56