Ave Atque Vale - Dargaard

Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus

Advenio miseras, frater, ad inferias

Ut te postremo donarem munere mortis

Donarem munere mortis

Et nequiquam alloquerer cinerem

Quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum

Heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi

Frater adempte mihi

Nune tamen interea haec, prisco quae more parentum

Tradita sunt tristis munera ad inferias

Accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu

Multum manantia fletu

Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale

Ave atque vale…

borne through many nations and many by sea

I come to you wretched brother, to you

That I may finally bestow the gift of death

Gift in the gift of death

And speak in vain to ashes

Since fortune has stolen from me

Alas, my brother has been robbed from me

Brother stolen from me

But in the mean time these things, in the old fashion of their parents

Gifts were delivered to the policeman

Take much brotherly, wet tears

my little dripping tears

And for ever, brother, Hail and Farewell

Hail and farewell…