How fair this spot | How fair this spot... Look — in the distance

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by Glafira Nikolayevna Mamoshina (1870 - 1942), as G. Galina

Translation © by Sergey Rybin

Как хорошо... Взгляни, вдали

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG ENG FRE GER ITA JPN POL SPA

[Как]¹ хорошо... Взгляни, вдали
Огнём горит река;
Цветным ковром луга легли,
Белеют облака.
Здесь нет людей... Здесь тишина.
Здесь только Бог да я.
Цветы, да старая сосна,
Да ты, мечта моя...

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• S. Rachmaninov

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Confirmed with «Любовь – небес святое слово». Классика русской женской поэзии, Litres, 2022, accessed through Google Books.

¹ Rachmaninov: "Здесь"

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Text Authorship:

by Glafira Nikolayevna Mamoshina (1870 - 1942), as G. Galina, no title, first published 1902 [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 Boris Vladimirovich Podgoretsky (1873 - 1919), "Как хорошо" [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Здесь хорошо", op. 21 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve songs)) no. 7 (1902) [ voice and orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Nikolay Andreyevich Sass-Tisovsky (1877 - 1942), "Здесь хорошо" [sung text not yet checked]
by Nikolay Andreyevich Sass-Tisovsky (1877 - 1942), "Как хорошо… взгляни в дали" [sung text not yet checked]

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How fair this spot

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

How fair this spot... Look — in the distance
The river gleams with fire;
The meadows lie like a flowery carpet,
The clouds shine white.
There are no people here... Here it is silence...
Here only God and I.
The flowers, the ancient pine,
And you, my dream!

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This text was added to the website: 2026-03-16
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