Like blood and sweat it is simple:
To people — tsar, to tsar — people.
Like mystery of two it is clear:
The third is the spirit, the two are near.
From the sky tsar is placed on the throne:
That is clear like dream and snow.
To the throne tsar will come again yet:
It is holy like blood and sweat.
Это просто, как кровь и пот:
Царь — народу, царю — народ.
Это ясно, как тайна двух:
Двое рядом, а третий — Дух.
Царь с небес на престол взведён:
Это чисто, как снег и сон.
Царь опять на престол взойдёт —
Это свято, как кровь и пот.
«The murmurs ebb; onto the stage I enter. / I am trying, standing in the door, / To discover in the distant echoes / What the coming years may hold in store. / / The nocturnal darkness with a thousand / Binoculars is focused onto me. / Take away this cup, O Abba Father, / Everything ...»
«Noise had ceased. I've slowly come out / To the stage, and leaning at the door, / Try to gasp in echo's distant sounds, / What's prepared for me in my life's store. / / Nightly dark is strait at me a-leveled / By a lot of little glasses' eyes. / If it's possible, oh, lord of earth and...»
«The buzz subsided and I am on the stage. / Leaning pensively against the door, / Catching vaguely, in my whole age, / What will happen, no less no more. / / I am in the center of the Sphere, / Stars are aiming at me from the dark. / If you just could do it, Father, dear, / Let the a...»
«I was forsaken, a beast in a cage, / Elsewhere was freedom and light, / For me was the noise of the chase / With no path open for flight. The dark woods, the bank of a pond, / The log of a fallen fir tree. / Every way out is cut off. / What’ll be will be, for me. For what obscenity, ...»