Orff: Carmina Burana,
"Cignus ustus cantat"
("The Roast Swan")
(Unpublished music, Sample 17)

(Tenor/Countertenor)
Olim lacus colueram,
olim pulcher extiteram,
dum cignus ego fueram.

(Male chorus)
Miser, miser!
modo niger
et ustus fortiter!

(Tenor/Countertenor)
Girat, regirat garcifer;
me rogus urit fortiter;
propinat me nunc dapifer,

(Male chorus)
Miser, miser!
modo niger
et ustus fortiter!

(Tenor/Countertenor)
Nunc in scutella iaceo,
et volitare nequeo
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(Male chorus)
Miser, miser!
modo niger
et ustus fortiter!

(Tenor/Countertenor)
Once I lived on lakes,
once I looked beautiful
when I was a swan.

(Male chorus)
Misery me!
Now black
and roasting fiercely!

(Tenor/Countertenor)
The servant is turning me on the spit;
I am burning fiercely on the pyre:
the steward now serves me up.

(Male chorus)
Misery me!
Now black
and roasting fiercely!

(Tenor/Countertenor)
Now I lie on a plate,
and cannot fly anymore,
I see bared teeth:

(Male chorus)
Misery me!
Now black
and roasting fiercely!