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Я горько сетовал в пустыне: ,,Кто будет близок мне отныне, как были близки сердцу вы?`` Мне эхо вторило: ,,Увы!`` ,,Как буду жить, больной и скучный, томим печалью неотлучной и рядом тягостных годин?`` Мне эхо вторило: ,,Один!`` ,,Но [где укрыться?]1 мир могила, мне жизнь бесцельная постыла. Где прежний блеск, и рай?`` Сказало эхо: ,,Умирай!``
1 Rimsky-Korsakov: "что мне делать," ("chto mne delat',")
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Note on TransliterationsText Authorship:
- by Sergei Arkad'evich Andreyevsky (1847 - 1919) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), "L'écho", appears in Les Récits et les Élégies, in Élégies, in 2. L'Exilée, first published 1877
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Yakov Moiseyevich Lyubin (1858 - 1914), "Эхо" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Эхо", op. 27 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 2 (1883) [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "The echo", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "L'écho", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 54
I bitterly lamented amidst the desert: "Who from now on will be As close to my heart as You once were?" The echo responded: "Alas!" "How will I live on, sick and morose, Tormented by ever present sorrow And many onerous years?" The echo responded: "Alone!" "But what should I do? The world is a grave, Meaningless life is abhorrent to me. Where is former splendour, pleasure and paradise?" The echo said: "Die!"
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Based on:
- a text in Russian (Русский) by Sergei Arkad'evich Andreyevsky (1847 - 1919)
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), "L'écho", appears in Les Récits et les Élégies, in Élégies, in 2. L'Exilée, first published 1877
This text was added to the website: 2017-01-14
Line count: 12
Word count: 73