Winter | Where are the sweet whisper

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by Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800 - 1844)

Translation © by Lyle Neff

Зима

(Sung text for setting by C. Cui)

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Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: CHI ENG

Где сладкий шёпот
Густых лесов,
Потоков ропот,
Цветы лугов?
Деревья голы;
Ковёр зимы
Покрыл холмы,
Луга и долы.
Под ледяной
Своей корой
Ручей немеет;
Все цепенеет,
Лишь ветер злой,
Бушуя, воет
И небо кроет
Седою мглой.

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Composition:

César Antonovich Cui

Тринадцать музыкальных картинок (Trinadcat' muzykal'nykh kartinok) = Vignettes musicales, treize mélodies = Thirteen pictures in music

French (Français)

Text Authorship:

by Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800 - 1844), no title, first published 1831

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CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Lyle Neff) , "Winter", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Friedrich Ludwig Konrad Fiedler) , "Der Winter"

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Winter

(Sung text translation for setting by C. Cui)

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Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Where are the sweet whisper
of dense forests,
the murmur of streams,
the flowers of meadows?
The trees are naked:
the carpet of winter
has covered the hills,
meadows, and valleys.
Under its
icy crust
the hand grows numb,
everything freezes.
Only the wicked wind
howls as it roars,
and the sky covers
with a gray haze.

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