25 шотландских народных песен (25 Schottische Lieder): № 18 «Enchantress, Farewell».

Создано: 1818.

Исполняемый текст (оригинал):
Enchantress, farewell, who so oft hast
decoy’d me,
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25 шотландских народных песен (25 Schottische Lieder): № 18 «Enchantress, Farewell».

Создано: 1818.

Исполняемый текст (оригинал):
Enchantress, farewell, who so oft hast
decoy’d me,
At the close of the evening through
woodlands to roam,
Where the forester, ‘lated, with
wonder espied me
Explore the wild scenes he was
quitting for home.
Farewell and take with thee thy
numbers wild speaking
The language alternate of rapture and
woe:
Oh! none but some lover, whose
heartstrings are breaking
The pang that I feel at our parting can
know.
Each joy thou couldst double, and
when there came sorrow,
Or pale disappointment to darken my
way,
What voice was like thine, that could
sing of tomorrow,
Till forgot in the strain was the grief of
today!
But when friends drop around us in
life’s weary waning,
The grief, Queen of Numbers, thou
canst not assuage;
Nor the gradual estrangement of those
yet remaining,
The languor of pain, and the chillness
of age.
‘Twas thou that once taught me,
accents bewailing,
To sing how a warrior I lay stretch’d on
the plain,
And a maiden hung o’er him with aid
unavailing,
And held to his lips the cold goblet in
vain;
As vain thy enchantments, O Queen of
wild Numbers
To a bard when the reign of his fancy is
o’er,
And the quick pulse of feeling in
apathy slumbers
Farewell, then, Enchantress I’ll meet
thee no more!

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) ,
“Farewell to the Muse”

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