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Я горько сетовал в пустыне: ,,Кто будет близок мне отныне, как были близки сердцу вы?`` Мне эхо вторило: ,,Увы!`` ,,Как буду жить, больной и скучный, томим печалью неотлучной и рядом тягостных годин?`` Мне эхо вторило: ,,Один!`` ,,Но [где укрыться?]1 мир могила, мне жизнь бесцельная постыла. Где прежний блеск, и рай?`` Сказало эхо: ,,Умирай!``
1 Rimsky-Korsakov: "chto mne delat',"
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- by Sergei Arkad'evich Andreyevsky (1847 - 1919) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- a text in French (Français) by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), "L'écho", appears in Les Récits et les Élégies, in Élégies, in 2. L'Exilée, first published 1877
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- by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Эхо", op. 27 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 2 (1883). [ sung text verified 1 time]
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- ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , title 1: "The echo", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "L'écho", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-19
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Je me plaignais amèrement dans le désert : « Qui à partir de maintenant sera proche de moi Comme vous étiez proche de mon cœur ? » L'écho répéta : « Malheur ! » « Comment vais-je vivre, malade et morose, Tourmenté tout le temps par une tristesse Et de l'ennui de nombreuses années ? » L'écho répéta : « Isolé ! » « Mais où se cacher ? Le monde est une tombe, Ma vie est sans but et odieuse où sont le paradis et l'ancienne splendeur ? » L'écho dit : « Meurs ! »
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- Translation from Russian (Русский) to French (Français) copyright © 2017 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 Sergei Arkad'evich Andreyevsky (1847 - 1919)
- a text in French (Français) by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), "L'écho", appears in Les Récits et les Élégies, in Élégies, in 2. L'Exilée, first published 1877
This text was added to the website: 2017-01-20
Line count: 12
Word count: 97