Песня могильщика | Не чаял в молодые дни

Translation by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890 - 1960)

In youth, when I did love, did love

Language: English

In youth, when I did love, did love,
Methought it was very sweet,
To contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove,
O, methought, there was nothing meet.

But age, with his stealing steps,
Hath claw'd me in his clutch,
And hath shipped me intil the land,
As if I had never been such.

A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade,
For and a shrouding sheet:
O, a pit of clay for to be made
For such a guest is meet.

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by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1

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Песня могильщика

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Language: Russian (Русский) after the English

Не чаял в молодые дни
Я в девушках души
И думал, только тем они
Одним и хороши.

Но тихо старость подошла
И за руку взяла,
И все умчалось без следа
Неведомо куда.

Бери ж лопату и кирку
И новый саван шей,
И рой могилу старику
На водворенье в ней.
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Composition:

Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov

Text Authorship:

by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890 - 1960)

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a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-26
Line count: 13
Word count: 50