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Grandmother has been run over by a deer whilst going to a house from a house in the evening.
You can deny the Father of the Feast, but Grandfather believes [he] exists, as do I.
They deceived me about the Feast. They deceived with a song,
and they told me stories, till I believed the son born by a ***.
And I believed in the Father of the Feast and I looked to the sky with great hope
then I woke when it was dawn and I saw that he was lying with his clothing.
Very big carriages... the rivers are wealthy...
but the wind passes through -- old people are neglected here.
When you held me on a cold evening,
you promised me a favourable wind [which would let you sail through life].
You were handsome! You were pretty, about to rule the city!
At the end of the song they demanded another.
A man was keeping time; every drunk man [was] a singer.
After the kiss on the corner, we danced.
Of Ireland the little policemen were singing in a choir
and the bells were ringing for the Feast.
A year ago [I doubt "a Christmas ago" is Latin idiom], I had given you my heart,
but the next day you handed it over willingly.
This year, lest I cry now [should be future tense, but Latin has no subjunctive future],
I'll give it to someone special.
(Stay, stay...) Darling, if there's a going-away for you to do [Latin idiom],
may you not think me capable of enduring. (Stay, stay...)
Stay another day! (Stay, stay, stay, stay...)
Be unwilling to leave me like this! Be unwilling to stop the kisses!
(Stay, stay...) Stay another day!
(Stay, stay, surely you know...)
Think of a house lacking Lares [every household had a Lar, a god to protect it].
Think of a Feast if you're far from civilisation.
I'll be there, with myself abandoned. I'll liquefy the snow with [my] crying.
Am I mighty, lacking you? [But in medieval Latin "sum valens" = "I can".] It'll be nowhere, nowhere to go. [Not sure if this is correct.]
I'll be quite alone this Feast because I'll lack you.
I'll be quite alone this Feast; lonely I'll be cold.
Caesar Nerva Trajan is coming [Emperor Trajan conquered many lands and was generous to the public.]
to praise us illustrious people. [I should've put "illustres" in quotation marks.]
But we're cold outside in the snows marching to the enemy.
The situation's rough, I'm tired of the situation... Would you please stop the cavalry?