"David Stevenson" <bridge2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> As I suggested might happen, OKBridge has decided to accept a monthly
> article from me for publication in their monthly newsletter. While I am
> the successor to Tuna and his Netiquette it has been decided that I
might
> write on more general subjects, and we are really just seeing how it
goes.
> Feedback, either here, to OKBridge's discuss, or by email to me, is
> appreciated.
>
> The title, David's Word, was not my idea, though I quite like it!
You may be amused to learn its provenance.
The thirteenth-century hymn known as the Dies Irae, thought to be by
Thomas
of Celano and set to music by more than one composer including Mozart and
Verdi as part of the Requiem Mass, begins:
Dies irae dies illa
solvet saeclum in favilla
teste David *** Sybilla.
In the most popular of the many translations of the work, this is
rendered:
Day of wrath and doom impending,
Heaven and Earth in ashes ending,
David's word with Sybil's blending.
The second stanza will particularly appeal to tournament directors:
Quantus tremor est futurus
quando judex est venturus
cuncta stricte discussurus.
In the same translation:
O! what fear man's bosom rendeth
When from Heaven the judge descendeth
On whose sentence all dependeth.
If the director knows his business and has brought the law book to the
table:
Liber scriptus proferetur
in quo totum continetur
unde mundus judicetur.
which is to say (for sufficiently vague values of "exactly"):
Lo! the book exactly worded,
Wherein all hath been recorded -
Thence shall judgment be awarded.
Should the ruling go to appeal:
Judex ergo *** sedebit
quidquid latet apparebit
nil inultum remanebit.
or:
When the Judge his seat attaineth
And each hidden deed arraigneth,
Nothing unavenged remaineth.
In those cir***stances, it is best to throw yourself upon the clemency of
the Committee:
Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?
Quem partonum rogaturus
*** vix justus sit securus?
What shall I, frail man, be pleading?
Who for me be interceding
When the just are mercy needing?
The best of luck with your endeavours. Or to put it another way, tantus
labor non sit cassus...
David (no relation) Burn
London, England
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