The night, the street, the lamp, the drug store | The night, the street, the lamp, the drug store

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by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921)

Translation © by Jacob Wilde

Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека,
Бессмысленный и тусклый свет. 
Живи ещё хоть четверть века -
Всё будет так. Исхода нет. 

Умрёшь - начнёшь опять сначала
И повторится всё, как встарь:
Ночь, ледяная рябь канала,
Аптека, улица, фонарь.

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Text Authorship:

by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921), first published 1912 [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 Boris Shnaper (1936 - 1982), "Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека" [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Jacob Wilde) , "The night, the street, the lamp, the drug store", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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The night, the street, the lamp, the drug store

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

The night, the street, the lamp, the drug store,
The dim and meaningless light.
Live for even a quarter century more - 
Everything will be like this. There is no way out.

You will die - you will begin again from the beginning
And everything will repeat, like before:
The night, the icy ripple of the canal,
The drug store, the street, the lamp.

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921), first published 1912
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This text was added to the website: 2024-11-30
Line count: 8
Word count: 62