by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897)
Angel i demon
Language: Russian (Русский)
Pod"emljut spor za cheloveka Dva dukha moshchnye: odin - `Edemskoj dveri vlastelin I vechnyj strazh jejo ot veka; Drugoj -- vo vsem velich'i zla, Vladyka sumrachnogo mira: Nad ognennoj jego porfiroj Gorjat dva ognennykh kryla. No torzhestvo komu zh ustupit V pyli rozhdennyj chelovek? Venec li vechnykh pal'm on kupit Il' chashu vremennuju neg? Gospoden' angel tikh i jasen: Jego zhivit smiren'ja luch; No gordyj demon tak prekrasen, Tak luchezaren i moguch!
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- 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]
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- by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Ангел и демон", 1898 [sung text checked 1 time]
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Word count: 71