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by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897)

Ангел и демон
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Подъемлют спор за человека
Два духа мощные: один -
Эдемской двери властелин
И вечный страж её от века;
Другой -- во всем величьи зла,
Владыка сумрачного мира:
Над огненной его порфирой
Горят два огненных крыла.

Но торжество кому ж уступит
В пыли рожденный человек?
Венец ли вечных пальм он купит
Иль чашу временную нег?
Господень ангел тих и ясен:
Его живит смиренья луч;
Но гордый демон так прекрасен,
Так лучезарен и могуч!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897), "Ангел и демон", written 1841, appears in Из восточного мира (Iz vostochnogo mira), in Еврейские песни (Jevrejskije pesni) [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 Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Ангел и демон", 1898 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-01-22
Line count: 16
Word count: 70

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