The Bakhchysarai Palace fountain | Fountain of love, fountain of life!

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

Фонтану Бахчисарайского дворца

(Sung text for setting by V. Vlasov)

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Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Фонтан любви, фонтан живой!
Принёс я в дар тебе две розы.
Люблю немолчный говор твой
И поэтические слёзы.

Твоя серебряная пыль
Меня кропит росою хладной:
Ах, лейся, лейся, ключ отрадный!
Журчи, журчи свою мне быль...

Фонтан любви, фонтан печальный!
И я твой мрамор вопрошал;
Хвалу стране прочел я дальной;
Но о Марии ты молчал...

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Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), "Фонтану Бахчисарайского дворца", written 1824

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ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , "The Bakhchysarai Palace fountain", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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The Bakhchysarai Palace fountain

(Sung text translation for setting by V. Vlasov)

See original

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Fountain of love, fountain of life!
I brought an offering to you, two roses.
I love your ceaselessly murmuring voice
And poetic tears.

Your silvery dust
Settles on me like cold dewdrops:
Ah, flow, flow, in your comforting way!
Babble, babble a tale of the past to me...

Fountain of love, fountain of sorrow!
I asked your marble lips;
I heard tales in praise of distant lands;
But about Maria you have been silent...

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3 of the original text.

Translator's note: Bakhchysarai is a town near the Black Sea on the Crimean peninsula. Pushkin’s poem refers to the “Fountain of Tears” - image here [wikipedia]

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