O Fortuna

O Fortune
Like the Moon
You are changeable
Ever waxing
And waning
Hateful life
Now oppresses
And then soothes
As the sharp mind
It turns
Poverty
Power
It melts them like ice

Fate monstrous
And empty
You whirling wheel
You are malevolent
Well-being is vain
Always dissolves
Shadowed
And veiled
You plague me too
Now through the game
I bring my bare back
To your villainy

Fate is against me
In health
And virtue
Driven on
And weighted down
Always enslaved
So at this hour
Without delay
Pluck the vibrating strings
Since through Fate
You strike down the strong
Everyone weep with me!