Letter 8007: The world's orb is gripped by the ice of winter cold
VII
Ad eandem de floribus super altare
Frigoris hiberni glacie constringitur orbis
totaque lux agri flore carente perit.
tempore vernali, dominus quo Tartara vicit,
surgit aperta suis laetior herba comis.
inde viri postes et pulpita floribus ornant,
hinc mulier roseo conplet odore sinum.
at vos non vobis, sed Christo fertis odores,
has quoque primitias ad pia templa datis.
texistis variis altaria festa coronis,
pingitur ut filis floribus ara novis.
aureus ordo crocis, violis hinc blatteus exit,
coccinus hinc rubricat, lacteus inde nivet.
stat prasino venetus: pugnant et flore colores.
inque loco pacis herbida bella putas.
haec candore placet, rutilo micat illa decore;
suavius haec redolet, pulchrius illa rubet.
sic specie varia florum sibi germina certant,
ut color hic gemmas, tura revincat odor.
vos quoque quae struitis haec, Agnes cum Radegunde,
floribus aeternis vester anhelet odor.
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Powerful Radegund, of royal stock in the world —
If the seasons were bringing me white lilies as usual
Whence has returned to me a face with shining light?
Radegund, mind fertile for God, life of the sisters —
O queen with power, to whom gold and purple are worthless,