Cum essem parvulus (Orlando di Lasso)
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- CPDL #04984:
- Editor: Kelvin Smith (submitted 2003-05-07). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 362 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- CPDL #01549:
Finale 2002
- Editor: Marc Vilain (submitted 2000-10-27). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 118 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Updated 2015-02-09. Score errors fixed.
General Information
Title: Cum essem parvulus
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SAATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1582, Mottetta, 6 vocum typis nondum uspiam excusa, Munich
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Cum essem parvulus,
Loquebar ut parvulus,
Sapiebam ut parvulus,
Cogitabam ut parvulus,
Quando autem factus sum vir,
Evacuavi quae erant parvuli:
Videmus nunc per speculum ænigmate,
Tunc autem facie ad faciem.
Nunc cognosco ex parte,
Tunc autem cognoscam sicut et cognitus sum.
Nunc autem manent:
Fides, Spes, Charitas tria hæc:
Major autem horum est Charitas.
English translation
When I was a child,
I talked like a child,
I possessed a child's knowledge,
I thought like a child.
But now that I am a man,
I have put aside childish things.
We now see confused images as through a mirror,
But then [we'll see] directly.
Now I know [things] partially,
Then, however, I will know in the way I have also been known.
Now thus remain these three things:
Faith, Hope, and Charity.
But the greatest of them is Charity.