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Tam stojí stará skalá U vchodu údolí, Tak opuštěná, pustá, Až srdce zabolí. K té staré skálé často Zabloudí noha má; Já vzhůru k ní pozírám Vlhkýma zrakoma. A u té tvrdé skály Já dlouhé chvíle dlím, A všecky své bolesti Tu v srdci pouspím... Až umru, v tuto skálu Uložte [srdce]1 mé: Tam na věčnosť se uspí To všecko hoře mé!...
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických od Gustava Pflegera (Moravského), V Praze (Prague) : Nákladem knihkupectvi: I. L. Kober, 1862, page 70. Note: in stanza 4, line 1, the website antonin-dvorak.cz shows "v tu skálu" instead of "v tuto skálu". The Bärenreiter edition (2003) of Dvořák's setting follows the Pfleger-Moravský edition.
1 Dvořák: "tělo"Text Authorship:
- by Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833 - 1875), no title, appears in Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických, in 1. Dozvuky lyrické, in 2. Písně, no. 16 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Tam stojí stará skalá u vchodu údolí", B. 11 no. 16 (1865) [ voice and piano ], from Cypřiše, no. 16 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Patrick John Corness) , "There stands that rock face of old", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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There stands that rock face of old, at the head of the dale, so bare and so deserted that my poor heart must bewail. Many times to that old rock my footsteps draw me near; up there I longingly look, from my eye falls a tear. By that hard rock, all alone, I spend a deal of time, and there all my aching pain I let my heart benumb… In that rock, when I die, lay my body to rest; from all my grief then gain I eternal peace at last!
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- a text in Czech (Čeština) by Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833 - 1875), no title, appears in Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických, in 1. Dozvuky lyrické, in 2. Písně, no. 16
This text was added to the website: 2023-08-18
Line count: 16
Word count: 91