Rise up, rise, be vigilant; trim your lamp, be ready.

If from sin thou hast been turned, born a new man wholly,
Changed thy life to better things, childlike, simple, holy;
Thus into God's realm shalt thou enter with the lowly.
Rise up, rise, be vigilant; trim your lamp, be ready.

Having alluded to _Gaudeamus Igitur_, I shall close my translations
with a version of it into English. The dependence of this lyric upon
the rhythm and substance of the poem on _Contempt for the World_,
which I have already indicated, is perhaps the reason why it is sung
by German students after the funeral of a comrade. The Office for the
Dead sounding in their ears, occasions the startling _igitur_ with
which it opens; and their mind reverts to solemn phrases in the midst
of masculine determination to enjoy the present while it is yet
theirs.

GAUDEAMUS IGITUR.

No. 60.

Let us live then and be glad
While young life's before us!
After youthful pastime had,
After old age hard and sad,
Earth will slumber o'er us.

Where are they who in this world,
Ere we kept, were keeping?
Go ye to the gods above;
Go to hell; inquire thereof:
They are not; they're sleeping.

Brief is life, and brevity
Briefly shall be ended:
Death comes like a whirlwind strong,
Bears us with his blast along;
None shall be defended.

Live this university,
Men that learning nourish;
Live each member of the same,
Long live all that bear its name;
Let them ever flourish!

Live the commonwealth also,
And the men that guide it!
Live our town in strength and health,
Founders, patrons, by whose wealth
We are here provided!

Live all girls! A health to you,
Melting maids and beauteous!
Live the wives and women too,
Gentle, loving, tender, true,
Good, industrious, duteous!

Perish cares that pule and pine!
Perish envious blamers!
Die the Devil, thine and mine!
Die the starch-necked Philistine!
Scoffers and defamers!

XXII.

I have now fulfilled the purpose which I had in view when I began this
study of the _Carmina Vagorum_, and have reproduced in English verse
what seemed to me the most characteristic specimens of that
literature, in so far as it may be considered precur