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What festival is ancient Rome preparing	A
Where flow the crowds in noisy waves	B
Why these aromas myrrh's sweet smoke	C
And censers all around abrim with fragrant herbs	D
From Capitoline Hill to Tiber's waves	B
Above universal city's streets	E
Why are the priceless rugs and purple stuffs	F
Spread among garlands laurels	G
Why all this noise The crash and thump of timpani	H
Are these heralds of joy or triumph	I
Why wearing the miter hastes the holy father	J
With gonfalon to the prayer house	K
For whom doth thankful Rome's most valued gift	L
The crown in his hands shimmer	J
For whom this triumph 'tis for you o blessed bard	M
For you this gift Jerusalem's bard	M
And now the joyful noise has reached the cell	N
Where Death joins battle with Torquatto	M
Where death's winged spirit swoops	O
Above the sufferer's blessed head	M
Not weeping friends nor praying monks	P
Nor honor's late rewards	Q
Can tame the iron hand of fate	M
Which knows no mercy for the great	M
Half dead he sees the horrid hour	J
And blesses it with joy	R
And parting with life one final time	S
The wondrous swan exclaims	T
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My friends O let me catch a glimpse of splendid Rome	U
Where a too early grave awaits the bard	M
Allow my glance to meet your hills and smoke	C
O ancient sepulcher of citizens	V
O blessed land of heroes and of wonders	W
Dust eloquent and ruins	V
Azure and purple of cloudless skies	X
You poplars and you ancient olives	Y
Eternal Tiber you who slake the thirst of every tribe	Z
Sown with a universe of bones	A2
Doomed to an early end	M
I greet you from within these dreary walls	B2
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It's done I stand before the fatal borne	C2
To wild applause I won't step on Capitoline	D2
And glory's laurels on my feeble head	M
Won't sweeten the bard's frightful lot	M
From youth I have been everybody's puppet	M
I was an exile as a child	M
I wandered a poor traveler	J
Under the sweet Italian sky	E2
What turns of fate did I not suffer	J
Where did the waves not toss my bark	F2
Where was I safe Where was my daily bread	M
Not spattered with the tears of sorrow	G2
Sorrento Cradle of my woe filled days	H2
Where once at night like a trembling Askania	D2
Fate tore me from my mother's breast	M
From her embraces sweet and kisses	I2
Do you recall what tears I spilled in childhood	M
Alas Since then a plaything of cruel fate	M
I've known great suffering the poverty of life	J2
The depths by Fortune quarried out	M
Beneath me and the thunder never ceased	M
Driven from place to place from land to land	M
In vain I sought a harbor on the earth	K2
I felt her hand relentless everywhere	L2
Her lightning everywhere harassed the bard	M
Not in a peasant's meager hut	M
Nor e'en protected by Alphonso's palace	M2
Nor under an obscure and silent roof	N2
Nor in the wilds nor in the hills was my head safe	O2
Embittered by glory and ignominy alike	P2
An exile's head from cradle consigned	M
Into the hands of an avenging goddess	M2
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But friends what clutches terribly my breast	M
Why does my heart lament and tremble	Q2
Whence do I come What awful path have I been following	A
And what behind me in the darkness gleams	R2
Ferrara Furies envy's serpent	M
Whither O whither murderers of my gift	M
I am in harbor Here is Rome My brothers and my kin	D2
Here are their tears and sweet embrace	S2
And Virgil's wreath upon the Capitoline hill	T2
Thus I fulfilled Appollo's task	U2
From my first youth his dedicated priest	M
Through lightning under raging skies	X
I sang the grandeur glorious of bygone days	H2
In bondage I did not betray my soul	V2
It harbors still the muses' sweet delight	M
And torments only reinforced my gift	M
It lived in wonderland by Zion's walls	B2
On Jordan's flowering shores	W2
It questioned you impatient Cedron	D2
And you serene asylum of Lebanon	D2
It raised you from the dead o heroes hoary	H
To awesome glory's dazzle and grandeur	X2
It gazed upon you Gottfried ruler king of kings	Y2
Magnificent and calm 'midst whistling arrows	Z2
On you o young Rinaldo ardent as Achilles	A3
In love and battle a blessed victor	J
It watched you fly above the corpses of your foes	Z2
Like fire like death like an avenging angel	Q2
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And Tartarus is vanquished by a shining cross	B3
O models of extraordinary valor	J
O holy triumph of our ancestors	W
Long laid to rest Pure faith victorious	M2
Torquato has invoked you from the depths of time	S
He sings and you will never be forgot	M
He sings and gains the wreath of immortality	H
By glory woven and the muses' hands	C3
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But it's too late I stand before the fatal borne	D2
To wild applause I won't step on Capitoline	D2
And glory's laurels on my feeble head	M
Won't sweeten the bard's frightful lot	M
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He then fell mute eyes burning with a doleful flame	D3
A final ray of talent 'ere the end	M
Even in dying it seemed he wished	M
To wrest a day of triumph from the Fates	E3
His gaze sought out the Capitoline walls	B2
He strained to raise himself	F3
But spent by struggles terrible with death	G3
Remained immobile on his bed	M
The golden orb was sliding to the west	M
And sinking in a scarlet glow	G2
The hour of death approached the sufferer's somber brow	H3
Brightened a final time	S
He gazed with quiet smile toward the west	M
And then refreshed by evening chill	T2
He raised his right hand to the listening heavens	V
Like a full righteous man with hope and joy	R
See to his weeping friends he quoth	G3
The king of stars burns in the west	M
'Tis he who summons me to cloudless lands	C3
Where the eternal star will shine	D2
I see the angel to that realm my guide	M
He has enfolded me in azure wings	Y2
Bring close the sign of love the cross mysterious	M2
And pray with hope and tears	I3
All earthly things must die both glory and the crown	D2
Art and the muses' great creations	V
But there all's neverending like our God	M
Who vouchsafes us eternal glory's crown	D2
The greatness of that place has filled my soul	V2
I've breathed it since my cradle days	H2
O brothers Friends Don't weep for me	H
Your friend's attained his long sought goal	V2
He will depart in peace and strong of faith	G3
He will not heed the agonizing end	M
There there O joy among the righteous wives	J3
Among the angels Elenora waits	E3
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And uttering the name of love the heav'nly poet died	M
In silence friends wept over him	K3
The day died quietly the voice of bells	L3
Bore the unhappy news through city streets	E
Torquatto's gone Rome cried in grief	M3
Our bard is dead so worthy of a better life	J2
The morning witnessed somber smoke	C
The Capitoline in mourning cloaked	M

Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov

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