I see a tear in your jealous sight

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by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

Translation © by Leonid Gulchin

Слеза дрожит

(Sung text for setting by P. Tchaikovsky)

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Language: Russian (Русский)

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Слеза дрожит в твоём ревнивом взоре,
О, не грусти, ты всё мне дорога,
Но я любить могу лишь на просторе,
Мою любовь, широкую как море,
Вместить не могут, нет! вместить не могут жизни берега.

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Но не грусти, земное минет горе,
Пожди ещё, неволя недолга --
В одну любовь мы все сольёмся вскоре,
В одну любовь, широкую как море,
Что не вместят, нет! что не вместят земные берега.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), "Слеза дрожит в твоём ревнивом взоре", first published 1858

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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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I see a tear in your jealous sight

(Sung text translation for setting by P. Tchaikovsky)

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Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

I see a tear in your jealous sight...
Oh, don't yearn; you're still dear to me!
But I can love only in expanse,
And my love, as wide as a sea,
Cannot fit into the shores of life.

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Oh, don't yearn, my darling; the troubles of life will end soon,
Just wait a bit more... the bondage is not long.
We all will interflow into one Love soon,
Into Love, which is as wide as a sea,
Which cannot fit into the shores of life.

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