Le ciel, peint en bleu, devient sinistre

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by Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Потускнел на небе синий лак

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: FRE

Потускнел на небе синий лак,
И слышнее песня окарины.
Это только дудочка из глины,
Не на что ей жаловаться так.
Кто ей рассказал мои грехи,
И зачем она меня прощает?
Или этот голос повторяет
Мне твои последние стихи?...

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Text Authorship:

by Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966), no title, written 1912 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Anna Abramovna Kozakevich (1909 - 2008), "Потускнел на небе синий лак" [sung text not yet checked]
by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Окарина", 1914 [ high voice and piano ], from Чётки, на стихи А. Ахматовой, no. 3, Петроград / Москва (Petrograd / Moscow), Государственное музыкальное издательство (Gosudarstvennoe muzykal’noe izdatel’stvo ) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Yevgeniya Iosifovna Yakhnina (1892 - 1979), "Потускнел на небе синий лак" [sung text not yet checked]

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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Le ciel, peint en bleu, devient sinistre

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

Le ciel, peint en bleu, devient sinistre,
On peut entendre le chant de l'ocarina.
C'est seulement un tuyau d'argile,
De quoi se plaint-il ?
Qui lui a dit mes péchés,
Et pourquoi devrait-il me pardonner ?
Ou cette voix répète
Pour moi tes derniers vers ?

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Translation of title "Окарина" = "Ocarina"

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This text was added to the website: 2015-11-10
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