O bone Jesu (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)
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CPDL #30728:
- Editor: Mick_Swithinbank (submitted 2013-12-07). Score information: A4, 15 pages, 115 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Source: Liber tertius cantionum sacrarum 1554 'apud Petrum Phalesium', Folio 4. Transposed down a minor 3rd.
General Information
Title: O bone Jesu
Composer: Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1554
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Original text and translations
Latin text
O bone Iesu, duo in me agnosco:
naturam, quam fecisti, et quod ego didici.
Fateor, quod per culpam deformavi naturam meam.
Memento, quod sum spiritus vadens et non rediens
et per me redire non possum.
Eya dulcissime Iesu tolle ex me quod ego feci
ut remaneat quod fecisti
et ne pereat quod tuo precioso sanguine redemisti.
Amen.
English translation
Kind Jesus, I discern two sides within myself:
the nature which you wrought and what I have learned myself.
I confess that through my faults I have deformed my nature.
Remember that I am a spirit that is striving without attaining what it would:
attainment is beyond me.
Therefore, sweet Jesus, take my deeds away from me
so that what you made may persist
and what you redeemed with your precious blood may not perish.
Amen.