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by Wilhelm Küchelbeker (1797 - 1846)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

О Делвиг, Делвиг!

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE

О Дельвиг, Дельвиг! Что награда
И дел высоких и стихов? 
Таланту что и где отрада
Среди злодеев и глупцов?

В руке суровой Ювенала 
Злодеям грозный быч свистит
И краску гонит с их ланит. 
И власть тиранов задрожала. 

О Дельвиг, Дельвиг, что гоненья?
Бессмертие равно удел 
И смелых вдохновенных дел
И сладостного песнопеня!

Так не умрёт и наш союз, 
Свободный, радостный и гордый! 
И в счастье и в несчастье твёрдый
Союз любимцев вечных муз!

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Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Küchelbeker (1797 - 1846) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "О Делвиг, Делвиг!", op. 135 no. 9, from Symphony no. 14, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Oh Delvig, Delvig", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Salvador Pila) , "Oh Delvig, Delvig", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ô Delvig, Delvig !", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Wilhelm Küchelbeker) , "O Delwig, Delwig"

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 73

Ô Delvig, Delvig !

Language: French (Français) after the Russian (Русский)

Ô Delvig, Delvig ! Qu'y-a-t-il comme récompense
Pour les actions sublimes et la poésie ?
Quelle place y-a-t-il pour le talent
Parmi les vauriens et les fous ?

Sous la main dure de Juvénal
L'effrayant knout menace les criminels
Et enlève la couleur de leurs joues
Et le pouvoir des tyrans tremblait.

Ô Delvig, Delvig ! Qu'y-a-t-il pour la persécution ?
L'immortalité est le lot
Pour des actions courageuses et inspirées
Et pour des chants délicieux !

Ainsi ne mourra jamais notre union
Libre, joyeuse et fière !
Et dans le bonheur et le malheur restera fermement
Le lien des amis des muses éternelles.

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Translation from Russian (Русский) to French (Français) copyright © 2015 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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a text in Russian (Русский) by Wilhelm Küchelbeker (1797 - 1846)
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This text was added to the website: 2015-08-31
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Word count: 97