Eclipsis Animae
Ut solem tellus lunamque stat inter opacam,
Stat peccatum inter meque deumque meum.
As th’ Earth ’twixt Sun and Moon doth stand we see
In her Eclipse: so sin ’twixt God and me.
In her Eclipse: so sin ’twixt God and me.
The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. There are two words in this poem that are not on the DCC list:
eclīpsis (eclīpsis, f.): eclipse
opācus, -a, -um: dark, shadowy
anima -ae f.: breath, spirit
deus -ī m.; dea -ae f. god; goddess
ego meī mihi mē: I, me
inter: between, among; during (+ acc.)
lūna -ae f.: moon
meus -a -um: my
peccō -āre: commit a wrong, injure
que (enclitic) - and
sōl sōlis m.: sun
stō stāre stetī statum: stand
tellus tellūris n.: earth
ut, uti: as (+ indic.); so that, with the result that (+ subj.)