Time, the Devourer of All Things (Latin)

Tempus edax rerum, tuque invidiosa vetustas,
omnia destruitis, vitiataque dentibus aevi
paulatim lenta consumitis omnia morte.
Ergo ubi iam validis aevi virtutibus usus
non habeo corpus, et aetas me destituitque,
tamen in ore manet; memores mihi fama, mei famaeque manebit,
dum loquor atque aliis memoranda loquendaque tradam.

Time, the devourer of all things, and envious age,
Alters all things, and so you destroy
With slow dilapidation, even as this day dies.
When metals, stones, and words do perish,
Yet my love shall outlive all in memory.
Grant, gods, that my mind may transcend decay,
And what I cannot do in body, I achieve in fame.
May my name be immortal.