La vierge du Swites | Mon beau jeune homme

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by Lev Aleksandrovich Mey (1822 - 1862)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Свитезянка

Language: Russian (Русский) after the Polish (Polski)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Парень пригожий мой,
Парень красивый, кто ты?
Зачем над Свитезью бурливой
Бродишь ненастной порою?
Бросься к нам в волны
И будем кружиться вместе по зыби
Хрустальной со мною.
Хочешь, мой милый,
И ласточкой шибкой
Будешь над озером мчаться,
Или красивой веселою рыбкой 
Белый день будешь ты в струйках плескаться.
Ночью на ложе волны серебристой
Ландишей мы набросаем,
Сладко задремлем под сенью струистой,
Дивные грёзы узнаем!

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Text Authorship:

by Lev Aleksandrovich Mey (1822 - 1862), "Свитезянка" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Polish (Polski) by Adam Mickiewicz (1798 - 1855) [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Свитезянка", op. 7 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 3 (1867) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "Svitez maiden", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La vierge du Swites", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 65

La vierge du Swites

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

Mon beau jeune homme,
Mon beau jeune homme, qui es-tu ?
Pourquoi au-dessus du turbulent Swites
Te promènes-tu parfois sous la pluie ?
Jette-toi dans les vagues,
Et tourbillonnons ensemble sur la houle
Cristalline avec moi.
Souhaites-tu, mon cher,
Comme une hirondelle vive
Voler au-dessus du lac,
Ou comme un poisson beau et joyeux 
Tout le jour t'ébrouer dans le ruisseau.
La nuit sur le lit d'une vague argentée 
Nous nous roulerons dans le muguet,
Doucement nous nous assoupirons sous l'ombre de l'onde,
Nous aurons de merveilleux rêves !

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Based on:

a text in Russian (Русский) by Lev Aleksandrovich Mey (1822 - 1862), "Свитезянка"
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Based on:

a text in Polish (Polski) by Adam Mickiewicz (1798 - 1855) [text unavailable]
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This text was added to the website: 2017-01-17
Line count: 16
Word count: 86