Regarde : un nuage argenté arrive à toute vitesse

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by Nikolai Porfiryevich Grekov (1810 - 1866)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Смотри: вон облако несётся серебристое

Language: Russian (Русский)

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Смотри: вон облако несётся серебристое;
Везде вокруг него сияет небо чистое,
Как молодость прекрасная твоя.
И утра блеск на нём так ярко отражается;
И так оно светло, как будто улыбается --
Оно похоже на тебя, оно похоже на тебя.

Смотри: вон туча там выходит одинокая;
Она темна, как ночь, как грусть души глубокая -
Не просветлит её сиянье дня...
Быть может оттого она мрачна так грозная,
Что с светлым облаком дана стезя ей розная, --
Она похожа на меня, она похожа на меня.

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by Nikolai Porfiryevich Grekov (1810 - 1866), "Стансы (М. Ф. К.)" [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 Aleksey Vladimirovich Taskin (1871 - 1942), "Стансы" [sung text not yet checked]
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Смотри: вон облако", op. 27 (Шесть романсов и песни = Shest' romansov i pesni (Six romances and songs)) no. 2 (1875) [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in French (Français), a translation by Paul Collin (1845 - 1915) , "Les deux nuages", appears in Trente poésies russes, mélodies, imitées par Paul Collin, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1894 [an adaptation] ; composed by René de Boisdeffre.

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

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Regarde : un nuage argenté arrive à...

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

Regarde : un nuage argenté arrive à toute vitesse ;
Tout autour de lui le ciel clair brille,
Comme ta belle jeunesse.
La lumière du matin si clairement réfléchie sur lui,
Et il est si léger, comme une envie de sourire,
Il est tout comme toi, il est tout comme toi.

Regarde : là-bas il y a une nuée qui arrive solitaire ;
Elle est sombre, comme la nuit, comme la profonde tristesse de l'âme.
Elle ne veut pas être illuminée par l'éclat du jour.
Peut-être est-elle sombre et terrible
Parce que son sort est différent de celui du nuage argenté ?
Elle me ressemble, elle me ressemble.

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