amare est carmen ignotum,
Salutari meo amorem ad me;
amor ad sine amore iacerem ostenditur,
ut applicarent esse amabilia.
oh quis ego sum, quod mei causa
Dómino meo debet accipere, carnem fragiles et moriuntur?
Ille est egressus ex benedíxit solium
Salutáre congregam;
sed homines facti alienos, et nemo
desiderantissimi Christum voluissent cognósceret:
sed oh mihi Amicus, mihi Amicus quidem,
Qui apud suae vitae meae opus expendere.
hic cui volo etiam tardavere et cantare,
nulla ita Divino fabulam;
numquam fuit amare, Rex carum!
numquam dolor fuerit similis Tui.
hoc amicus meum est, in cujus dulcis laudem
Ego omnibus diebus meis potuit libentissime impendam.
THe original author of this song is Samuel Crossman, 1664. It is usually played to the music of John Ireland - 'love uknown'.
I have been working on translating this myself from English to Italian, but would like to see if this translation service would also help - some words are very difficult and I am not sure of a good substitue - such as loveless -or the best way to say the phrase 'my song is love unknown' and have the meaning stay the same.
I hope to get this translated into Latin as well. Thank you for any help! I hope that that song can be sung in Italian and keep the same lovely melody.