День и ночь

На мир таинственный духов,
Над этой бездной безымянной,
Покров наброшен златотканый
Высокой волею богов.

День - сей блистательный покров -
День, земнородных оживленье,
Души болящей исцеленье,
Друг человеков и богов!

Но меркнет день - настала ночь;
Пришла, и с мира рокового
Ткань благодатную покрова
Сорвав, отбрасывает прочь...
И бездна нам обнажена
С своими страхами и мглами,
И нет преград меж ей и нами -
Вот отчего нам ночь страшна!

Submitted by Emily Ezust [Administrator]

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Authorship

• by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873), first published 1839 [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "День и ночь", op. 24 (Vosem' stikhotvorenij) no. 1. [voice and piano] [
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