Fountains | Like a translucent wall of airy palm trees in a forest

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by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947), as Ellis

Translation © by Aleksey Berg

Как лист воздушных пальм, прозрачною...

Language: Russian (Русский) after the French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Как [лист]¹ воздушных пальм, прозрачною стеной
В теплице высится фонтанов целый строй,
И каждый рвётся ввысь, в простор лететь желая,
Лазури поцелуй воздушный посылая!

Когда же тени вкруг вечерние падут,
В газонах им готов и отдых, и приют,
Они прервут полёт, спокойно засыпая,
Так меркнет лампы свет, печально угасая.

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Confirmed with Эллис, Иммортели. Стихотворения, 1904.

¹ Taneyev: "лес" (les)

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Text Authorship:

by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947), as Ellis, no title, appears in Иммортели. Стихотворения, in Фонтаны, no. 3 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Georges Rodenbach (1855 - 1898), no title, written 1898?, appears in Le miroir du ciel natal, poème, in 4. Les jets d'eaux, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Bibliothèque Charpentier-Fasquelle, first published 1898
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), "Фонтаны", op. 26 no. 7 (1908), published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from 10 Стихотворений из сборника Эллисъ «Иммортели» (10 Stikhotvorenij iz sbornika Ellis 'Immorteli') = 10 Poems from Ellis's Immortelles, no. 7, Berlin : Russischer Musikverlag [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Aleksey Berg) , "Fountains", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-03
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Fountains

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Like a translucent wall of airy palm trees in a forest,
A whole row of fountains towers in the greenhouse.
Each of them reaching up into the air, wishing they could fly into space,
Blowing a kiss to the azure sky.

When the evening shadows fall on the lawn,
Where respite and shelter await them,
They will stop their flight, calmly falling asleep,
As the dim light of the lamp, dolefully fades away.

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Based on:

a text in Russian (Русский) by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947), as Ellis, no title, appears in Иммортели. Стихотворения, in Фонтаны, no. 3
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Georges Rodenbach (1855 - 1898), no title, written 1898?, appears in Le miroir du ciel natal, poème, in 4. Les jets d'eaux, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Bibliothèque Charpentier-Fasquelle, first published 1898
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2019-07-21
Line count: 8
Word count: 73