Una furtiva lagrima

Una furtiva lagrima
negli occhi suoi spuntò:
Quelle festose giovani
invidiar sembrò.
Che più cercando io vo?
Che più cercando io vo?
M'ama! Sì, m'ama, lo vedo. Lo vedo.
Un solo istante i palpiti
del suo bel cor sentir!
I miei sospir, confondere
per poco a' suoi sospir!
I palpiti, i palpiti sentir,
confondere i miei coi suoi sospir...
Cielo! Si può morir!
Di più non chiedo, non chiedo.
Ah, cielo! Si può! Si, può morir!
Di più non chiedo, non chiedo.
Si può morir! Si può morir d'amor

From Act II, Scene VIII of the Italian opera, L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti.
Sometimes you can simply not translate something. Sung by Pavarotti. Beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh2Vh8jwyQA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Una_furtiva_lagrima

Αυγούστου μοναρχήσαντος επί της γής

Ἀμήν. Αυγούστου μοναρχήσαντος επί της γης, η πολυαρχία των ανθρώπων επαύσατο, και σου ενανθρωπήσαντος εκ της Αγνής η πολυθεία των ειδώλων κατήργηται υπό μίαν Βασιλείαν εγκόσμιον, αι πόλεις γεγένηνται και εις μίαν δεσποτείαν Θεότητος, τα έθνη επίστευσαν.

Priorities of power

Courtesy of: http://blogs.reuters.com/david-rohde/files/2012/10/RTR39RLY.jpg

Iατί ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἠδυνήθημεν ἐκβαλεῖν αὐτό

ὁ δὲ ᾿Ιησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· διὰ τὴν ἀπιστίαν ὑμῶν. ἀμὴν γὰρ λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐὰν ἔχητε πίστιν ὡς κόκκον σινάπεως, ἐρεῖτε τῷ ὄρει τούτῳ, μετάβηθι ἐντεῦθεν ἐκεῖ, καὶ μεταβήσεται, καὶ οὐδὲν ἀδυνατήσει ὑμῖν. Κατὰ Ματθαῖον 17.14-23

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ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος

...καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν εἰμι πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος

Life

Advice

Bequeath a tempest upon your foes
distort their evil-mannered intent
flee from the tide of temptation
and seek shelter in my love

Dialogue with Yeat`s poem

"...A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind...
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death."

Balance

A deserted longing amidst the dark
melted the image I had in mind
I weighted and found it floating
between essence and time
no haste among the living
a continous balance beyond my horizon.

Language orientation in Google Blog

When you publish in several languages on your blog, it seems that Google notices that. But today I noticed that there seem to be some glitches within the algorithm. This page had an ad in German but with the Greek footnote "Ads by Google". What does that tell us about their way of sorting it out? First they seem to be separate, the content and the footnote. Probably a more general language detection mode finds Greek letters and translates itself into Greek. And then the place of origin, of publication (Germany) determines the content language? Would be interesting to test? Has anyone got further insight or knowledge on that?

ἐγερθήσονται γὰρ ψευδόχριστοι

ἐγερθήσονται γὰρ ψευδόχριστοι καὶ ψευδοπροφῆται καὶ δώσουσι σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα πρὸς τὸ ἀποπλανᾶν, εἰ δυνατόν, καὶ τοὺς ἐκλεκτούς.(Κατὰ Μᾶρκον 13.14-23)

איך װעל אױסטאָן די שיך

Ich werde meine Schuhe und meine Trauer ablegen...

Text: Itsik Manger 1901-1969
Musik: Chava Alberstein

kh´vel oyston di shikh un dem troyer,
un kumen tsu dir tsurik. Ot azoy vi´kh
bin a farshpilter un shtel sikh far dayn blik.

mayn g´t mayn har mayn bashafer,
layter mikh oys in dayn shayn.
ot lig ikh far dir oyf a volkn,
farvig mikh un shlefer mikh ayn.

un red tsu mir gute verter,
un zog mir az ikh bin dayn kind.
un kush mir arop funem shtern,
di tseykhns fun mayne zind.

ikh hob dokh geton mayne shlikhes
un getrogn dayn g´tlekh lid.
tsi bin ikh den shuldik vos s´gramt sikh
alpi toes yid mit lid.

tsi bin ikh den shuldik vos s´kramt sikh
alpi toes sheyn mit geveyn.
un di benkshaft di emese benkshaft
voglt keseyder aleyn.

tsi bin ikh den shuldik derloykhter,
vos kh´bin itst dershlogn un mid.
un leyg dir avek tsufusns,
dos dozike mide lid ?

mayn g´t mayn har mayn bashafer,
layter mikh oys in dayn shayn.
ot lig ikh far dir oyf a volkn,
farvig mikh un shlefer mikh ayn.
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Ich werde meine Schuhe und meine Trauer ablegen
und zu dir zurückkehren, so habe ich ausgespielt
und stelle mich vor deinen Blick.

Mein G´tt mein Herr mein Schöpfer, erleuchte mich
mit deinem Schein, so liege ich vor dir auf einer
Wolke und wiege mich in den Schlaf.

Und rede zu mir gute Worte, und sag mir, dass
ich bin dein Kind, und küsse mir von meiner
Stirn die Zeichen meiner Sünde.

Ich habe doch meine Botschaft erfüllt, und dein
g´ttliches Lied getragen. Und bin ich denn schuldig
dass Jude und Lied sich reimen ?

Und bin denn schuldig, dass "schön" und "vorüber"
sich reimen ? Und die Sehnsucht die wahre Sehnsucht
wandert fortlaufend allein ?

Was bin ich denn schuldig, Erleuchter, wenn ich
jetzt niedergeschlagen und müde bin, und lege
dir zu Füssen, das selbe müde Lied ?

Mein G´tt mein Herr mein Schöpfer, erleuchte mich
mit deinem Schein, so liege ich vor dir auf einer
Wolke und wiege mich in den Schlaf.


Übersetzung

Television and Internet

Many of us from the software industry actually left their TVs in the corner of some dusty room or actually dumped it because the "variety" of content offered was simply overwhelmingly ...stupid. And we are happy with Internet that offers so much immediate info and depth in insight at a fingertip, that gives us the opportunity to build that global village we all have been striving for. And suddenly the so-called TV industry reaches out and wants to swallow us and our freedom, commercialize it without mercy and regret; even wants to force their "standards" of unilateral monkeyness onto our internet. How do we resist, keep the rule of law and the reign of creativity, offer that multitude of options for finding out more on the interrelational character of knowledge? Well at first we have to stop regulating. Liberty dies when to much redtape tries to fence it in their zoo. Protecting legitimate rights is an important and positive issue that we as small producers of software will fight for but everybody`s rights - big or small individual and company. SOPA, PIPA etc. are no solution to the problem. Let us all find a free economy solution to it, where crime is dried out, where the Internet will not become a second TV.

Oτι ὑμετέρα ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ

Mακάριοι οἱ πτωχοί, ὅτι ὑμετέρα ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ. μακάριοι οἱ πεινῶντες νῦν, ὅτι χορτασθήσεσθε. μακάριοι οἱ κλαίοντες νῦν, ὅτι γελάσετε. μακάριοί ἐστε ὅταν μισήσωσιν ὑμᾶς οἱ ἄνθρωποι, καὶ ὅταν ἀφορίσωσιν ὑμᾶς καὶ ὀνειδίσωσι καὶ ἐκβάλωσι τὸ ὄνομα ὑμῶν ὡς πονηρὸν ἕνεκα τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. χάρητε ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ καὶ σκιρτήσατε· ἰδοὺ γὰρ ὁ μισθὸς ὑμῶν πολὺς ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ· κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ γὰρ ἐποίουν τοῖς προφήταις οἱ πατέρες αὐτῶν.