by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715 - 1769)
Translation by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893)

Ty' priletel iz goroda
Language: Russian (Русский)  after the German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
«Ty' priletel iz goroda, - 
kakie, skazhi, tam sluxi nosyatsya o nas?»
(Skvorcza kukushka sprashivala raz).
«Chto zhiteli tolkuyut gorodskie xot`
naprimer, o pesnyax solov`ya?
Interesuyus` e`tim ochen` ya.»
«Ves` gorod on privodit v vosxishhen`e,
kogda v sadu ego razdastsya trel`.»
«A zhavronok?»
«I zhavoronka pen`e plenyaet ochen` mnogix.»
«Neuzhel`? Nu, a kakov ix otzy'v o drozde?»
«Da xvalyat i ego, xot` ne vezde.»
«Eshhyo xochu sprosit` ya, - mozhet stat`sya,
i obo mne ty' sly'shal koe-chto?»
«Vot pro tebya, sestricza, tak priznat`sya,
ne govorit reshitel`no nikto!»
«A! esli tak, - kukushka vozopila, -
to o sebe, chto lyudyam otometit`, 
sama ves` vek, pokuda xvatit sily',
ne perestanu ya tverdit`:
kuku, kuku, kuku, kuku, kuku...!»

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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Schmidt (1854 - 1923) ; composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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  • ENG English (Andrew Huth) , "The cuckoo", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-03
Line count: 21
Word count: 111