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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Ночевала тучка золотая
 (Sung text for setting by G. Bazilevsky)
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Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  CHI DUT
Ночевала тучка золотая
На груди утёса-великана;
Утром в путь она умчалась рано,
По лазури весело играя.

Но остался влажный след в морщине
Старого утёса. Одиноко
Он стоит; задумался глубоко,
И тихонько плачет он в пустыне...

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Note on Transliterations

Composition:

    Set to music by Georgy Petrovich Bazilevsky (b. 1887), "Ночевала тучка золотая", op. 8 [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "Утёс", first published 1841

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , "Een kleine wolk", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English [singable] (Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov) , "The cliff", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 35

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