At bedtime | The darkness of night brings silence

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by Nikolai Platonovich Ogaryov (1813 - 1877)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

На сон грядущий

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE

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Ночная тьма безмолвие приносит
И к отдыху зовёт меня.
Пора, пора! покоя тело просит,
Душа устала в вихре дня.

Молю тебя, пред сном грядущим, боже:
Дай людям мир; благослови 
Младенца сон, и нищенское ложе,
И слёзы тихие любви!

Прости греху, на жгучее страданье
Успокоительно дохни,
И все твои печальные созданья
Хоть сновиденьем обмани!

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Text Authorship:

by Nikolai Platonovich Ogaryov (1813 - 1877) [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 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov (1864 - 1920), "На сон грядущий" [sung text not yet checked]
by Vladimir Ivanovich Sokalsky (1863 - 1919), "На сон грядущий" [sung text not yet checked]
by Aleksey Vladimirovich Taskin (1871 - 1942), "На сон грядущий" [sung text not yet checked]
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "На сон грядущий", op. 27 (Шесть романсов и песни = Shest' romansov i pesni (Six romances and songs)) no. 1 (1875) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "At bedtime", copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "L'heure du coucher", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 53

At bedtime

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

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The darkness of night brings silence 
And calls me to rest.
It is time, it is time! My body asks for rest,
for my soul is worn out by the whirlwind of the day.

I pray to Thee at bedtime, God:
Give peace to mankind, bless 
the sleep of my little one, and the sleep of the needy,
And the quiet tears of love!

Forgive our sins, and alleviate our burning pain
with your soothing breath;
And send your sad creatures
again the sweet deception of dreams!

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Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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