Anton Stepanovitch Arensky:
Don't turn on the light!
Не зажигай огня!
("From distant lands and peoples...", Track 5)
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Don't turn on the light!
The stars send their greetings.
Don't chase the dream away.
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Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night Over the Rhone (detail), 1888, Oil on canvas,
92.0cm x 72.0cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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"Ne zazhigaj ognja!"
Ne zazhigaj ognja! Vo mgle dushistoj nochi
Otradno mne s toboj sidet' najedine.
Vzgljani, kak zvjozdy nam, nebes daljokikh ochi,
Privet svoj tjoplyj shljut, mercaja v vyshine.
Ne zazhigaj ognja! So svetom k nam nakhlynet
Znakomaja toska bescel'noj sujety,
Umchitsja svetlyj son, i schast'je nas pokinet.
Ne zazhigaj ognja, ne otgonjaj mechty.
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"Do not light the lamp!"
Do not light the lamp! In the darkness of this scented night
it is a delight for me to sit alone with you.
Look how the stars, the eyes of far-off skies,
send us their warm greetings, twinkling far above.
Do not light the lamp! With light will flood to us
the familiar sadness of life's pointless bustle;
the light will dash away the dream, and happiness will abandon us.
Do not light the lamp - do not chase away our dream.
Cyrillic, transliterated Russian text and translation
from The Lied and Art Song Texts Page
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