Pange melos lacrimosum, lacrimans elegia Tempus venit planctuosum, Tempus fraudans gaudia. Ad eclipsum nos moeroris obliquat spectacula. Regnet dolor nam doloris causa stat in specula.
O tearful elegy, sing a plaintive melody. A time of mourning has come, a time bereft of joy… The sinking star of the Rhine looks down on to the Latin soil. The star falls. The star’s fall enshrouds the earth in darkness…