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Pavel Fedotov: My Darling
Do you know, my little darling,
How much I love you!
It is simply awful,
How I cannot control my heart,
It burns so strongly in my breast,
It burns so strongly in my breast.
But I languish, and I dream,
That you perhaps may hear me, my beauty.
I certainly know, little scarlet rose,
That I was not destined to be your ideal.
From our first meeting I saw us related
Like two drops united in my soul.
Through passion I have become devoted to art,
Nature has made me seek my happiness there,
Fame is waiting in the future, fame is waiting in the future.
It is hard for love to live with fame,
Both of them will always poison each other,
Both of them are so close to my soul,
Where shall I find the strength to please those two?
The intensity of thoughts is freezing our embraces,
The heat of the kisses is obscuring my senses.
Vanish, o dreams of marriage, so inescapable in love,
Vanish, kisses, vanish, snow-white bosom,
Just wait, the storm is rising, just wait, the storm is rising.
My darling, please be an angel, be a genius only to me,
Rule over my heart, be my inspiration,
Strengthen my spirit in moments of fatigue,
Do not spend pity on gloomy thoughts
I do not know who will be your husband, but at night
I kiss your eyes, agitated in my sleep.
So I see you in the splendour of my fantasy,
Dressed more beautifully than the wives of Asian despots,
I adorn the sun with you, I adorn the sun with you.
(English version: Lavrentii Snopkov)
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