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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Тучи
 (Sung text for setting by G. Sviridov)
 See original
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Тучки небесные, вечные странники! 
Степью лазурною, цепью жемчужною
Мчитесь вы, будто как я же, изгнанники
С милого севера в сторону южную.

Мчитесь вы, тучки небесные. 

Кто же вас гонит: судьбы ли решение? 
Зависть ли тайная? злоба ль открытая? 
Или на вас тяготит преступление? 
Или друзей клевета ядовитая?
Тучки небесные, мчитесь вы,
Вечные, вечные странники!
Кто же вас гонит: судьбы ли решение?
Зависть ли тайная?
Тучки небесные, вечные странники! 

Нет, вам наскучили нивы бесплодные... 
Чужды вам страсти и чужды страдания;
Вечно холодные, вечно свободные,
Нет у вас родины, нет вам изгнания.

Note: an earlier spelling of "небесные" is "небесныя", still preserved in some of the titles below.

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Note on Transliterations

Composition:

    Set to music by Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov (1915 - 1998), "Тучи"

Text Authorship:

  • by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "Тучи", first published 1840

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English [singable] (Dmitri Smirnov) , "The clouds", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi) , "To the clouds", appears in Russian Lyrics, first published 1916


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 67

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