SVMMARIVM "LAMPADIS" MENSIS NOVEMBRIS

Amoris spes est dubia:

aut verax, aut contraria.

Amanti necessaria

virtutis est constantia.

 

Ita nos docent Carmina Burana. Saepe amantes non tantum a se invicem incommoda patiuntur, sed etiam cum concordes sint, ab inhumanis legibus male tractantur. De talibus impedimentis amoris Frigidi Pueri Mortis cantant:

 

Żądam, żeby jak najprędzej                                     

zdelegalizować szczęście.                                        
Wolność niech w paragrafach karę śmierci ma.       
Unieważnić abolicję,                                                

stworzyć tajną policję                                               
i szczęśliwej miłości tropić każdy ślad.                    

 

Est quam primum – rex, hoc manda! –

lege laeta mens vetanda

et libertas punienda est supplicio.

Quemque bonum, factum servum,

raptent vigiles in nervum.

Felix amor exstirpetur in initio.

 

Sed cupido satiari potest sine iurgiis aut invidia, procul ab hominibus. Quomodo? Scies id, care lector, ex hoc limerico:

 

A Swiss gardener from Lenz or Brienz

doesn’t screw either ladies or gents,

                        but he fucks without pardon

                        wooden dwarves in the garden.

This is why they’ve got hollows and dents.

 

Ecce idem carmen Polonice et Latine versum:

 

Pewien młody ogrodnik jest w Łebie,                     

który pań ani panów nie jebie                                  

                        – tak cnotliwy jest! – ale                                          

                        ogrodowe krasnale                                                   

chętnie dyma, gdy bywa w potrzebie.                     

 

Quidam cultor hortorum ad mare

nec cum femina coit, nec mare.

Sed non despicit nanos

(vilis ars!) hortulanos,

quando sentit id penem rogare.

                                                                                                         

Nicolaus Simonides