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N. N. 21 Stenka Rasin German Arg-1038-478 2010-03-09 15:31 Manfred only this add
Frieder Weigold Sten'ka Razin Esperanto Arg-928-478 2009-10-30 16:18 mgr only this add
Tr. Jacob Robbins Sten'ka Razin English 1921 Arg-1039-478 2010-03-09 17:06 Manfred only this remove
Kristian Langgaard Volga, Volga (Stenjka Rasin) Esperanto Arg-1036-478 2010-03-08 21:19 Manfred only this add
N. N. 20 Volga, Volga (Stenka Rasin) Danish Arg-1037-478 2010-03-08 12:16 Manfred only this add
Дмитрий Николаевич Садовников * Из-за острова на стрежень (Стенька Разин) Russian Arg-927-478 2010-03-07 18:59 Manfred only this add

Дмитрий Николаевич Садовников,
Sten'ka Razin

 
translated by Tr. Jacob Robbins
 
1. From beyond the wooded island
To the river wide and free
Proudly sailed the arrow-breasted
Ships of Cossack yeomanry.
 
2. On the first is Stenka Razin
With a princess at his side,
|: Drunken, holds a marriage revel
With his beautiful young bride. :|
 
3. But behind them rose a whisper,
"He has left his sword to woo;
|: One short night, and Stenka Razin
Has become a woman too!" :|
 
4. Stenka Razin hears the jeering
Of his discontented band,
|: And the lovely Persian princess
He has circled with his hand. :|
 
5. His black brows have come together
As the waves of anger rise,
|: And the blood comes rushing swiftly
To his piercing, jet-black eyes. :|
 
6. "I will give you all you ask for,
Life and heart, and head and hand,"
|: Echo rolls the pealing thunder
Of his voice across the land. :|
 
7. "Volga, Volga, mother Volga,
Deep and wide beneath the sun,
|: You have never seen a present
From the Cossack of the Don. :|
 
8. And that peace might rule as always
All my free-born men and brave,
|: Volga, Volga, mother Volga,
Volga, make this girl a grave." :|
 
9. With a sudden, mighty movement,
Razin lifts the beauty high,
|: And he casts her where the waters
Of the Volga move and sigh. :|
 
10. Now a silence like the grave sinks
To all those who stand to see,
|: And the battle-hardened Cossacks
Sink to weep on bended knee. :|
 
11. "Dance, you fool, and men, make merry!
What has got into your eyes?
|: Let us thunder out a chanty
Of a place where beauty lies." :|
 
12. From beyond the wooded island
To the river wide and free,
|: Proudly sail the arrow-breasted
Ships of Cossack yeomanry. :|
 
Translation of the Russian poem "Из-за
острова на стрежень
(Стенька Разин)" by Дмитрий
Николаевич Садовников
(Dmitrij Nikolajeviĉ Sadownikow, *1847
- †1883) into English by Tr. Jacob
Robbins on 1921.

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