Rachmaninoff / Pleshcheyev: A Dream (Op. 8, No. 5)
Text: Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (after Heinrich Heine)
--English version ©2011, by E. Lein
Сон
И у меня был край родной;
Прекрасен он!
Там ель качалась надо мной...
Но то был сон!
Семья друзей жива была.
Со всех сторон
Звучали мне любви слова...
Но то был сон!
A Dream
And I had a motherland--
So beautiful was she!
There spruce trees swayed above ...
But it was a dream!
There our family friends still lived.
From every side about me
Were heard sweet words of love ...
But it was a dream!