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by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
Translation by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964)

O wert thou in the cauld blast
Language: Scottish (Scots) 
Our translations:  FRE
O wert thou in the cauld blast
On yonder lea, on yonder lea,
My plaidie to the angry airt,
I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee.
Or did Misfortune's bitter storms
Around thee blaw, around thee blaw,
Thy [bield]1 should be my bosom
To share it a', to share it a'.

Or were I in the wildest waste,
Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,
The desert were a Paradise
If thou wert there, if thou wert there.
Or were I monarch of the globe,
Wi' thee to reign, wi' thee to reign,
The brightest jewel in my crown
Wad be my queen, wad be my queen.

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Confirmed with The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, edited by James Barke with an Introduction by John Cairney, Collins, Glasgow, 1995, Page 698.

1 note: in some editions, this is "shield"; "bield" means "shelter". Searching Google books, we can see that "bield" appears in more editions scanned than does "shield".

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Oh wert thou in the cauld blast"

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

  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Josef Václav Sládek) , "O, kdybys mraznou vichřicí…"
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (József Lévay) , "Oh, ha járnál ott a pusztán..."


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Iain Sneddon [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 108

В полях под снегом и дождём
 (Sung text for setting by T. Khrennikov)
 Matches base text
Language: Russian (Русский)  after the Scottish (Scots) 
В полях под снегом и дождём,
Мой милый друг, мой бедный друг,
Тебя укрыл бы я плащом
От зимних вьюг, от зимних вьюг.
А если мука суждена
Тебе судьбой, тебе судьбой,
Готов я скорбь твою до дна
Делить с тобой, делить с тобой.

Пускай сойду во мрачный дол,
Где ночь кругом, где тьма кругом,
Во тьме я солнце бы нашёл
С тобой вдвоём, с тобой вдвоём.
И если б дали мне в удел
Весь шар земной, весь шар земной,
С каким бы счастьем я владел
Тобой одной, тобой одной!

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Composition:

    Set to music by Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (1913 - 2007), "В полях под снегом и дождём" [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964)

Based on:

  • a text in Scottish (Scots) by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Oh wert thou in the cauld blast"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 92

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