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background-color: rgb(215, 215, 235); background-image: url(images/light-blue.gif);"> <!--PAGE CONTENT GOES HERE--> <center> <div style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Ljubvi vse vozrasty pokorny</b></div> <div style="font-size: 10pt;">(Aria of Prince Gremin)<br> Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, <i>Eugene Onegin</i>, act II</div><br> <div style="font-size: 8pt;">Translation by Miles Rind*</div> <br> <table style="width: 100%; text-align: left;" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2"> <tbody> <tr style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <td colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="vertical-align: top;"> <i>Gremin tells Onegin of the happiness he has found in his marriage with Tatiana.</i> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <td style="vertical-align: top;"> <p>N128 2A5 2>7@0ABK ?>:>@=K,</p> <p>5 ?>@K2K 1;03>B2>@=K</p> <p>8 N=>H5 2 @0AF25B5 ;5B</p> <p>5420 C28452H5<C A25B,</p> <p>8 70:0;5==><C AC4L1>9</p> <p>1>9FC A A54>N 3>;>2>9!</p> <td style="vertical-align: top;"> <p>Ljubvi vse vozrasty pokorny,</p> <p>ejo poryvy blagotvorny</p> <p>i junoshe v rastsvete let</p> <p>edva uvidevshemu svet,</p> <p>i zakaljonnomu sud boj</p> <p>bojtsu s sedoju golovoj!</p> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top;"> <p>To love all ages are obedient,</p> <p>its impulses are beneficial</p> <p>both to the youth in his prime</p> <p>who has hardly seen the world</p> <p>and to the fate-tested</p> <p>warrior with gray hair.</p> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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font-size: 10pt;"> <td style="vertical-align: top;"> <p>N128 2A5 2>7@0ABK ?>:>@=K, <i>8.B.4.</i></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top;"> <p>Ljubvi vse vozrasty pokorny, <i>i.t.d.</i></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top;"> <p>To love all ages are obedient, <i>etc.</i></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <td colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="vertical-align: top;"> *Based in part on the literal translation in Jean Piatak and Regina Avrashov, <i>Russian Songs and Arias</i> (Dallas: Pst, Inc., 1991), pp. 144&ndash;145, and made with the assistance of Anahit Flanagan. </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> </center> <!--END OF PAGE CONTENT--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!--END OUTER CONTENT SPACE T3:TT1--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!--END T3--> </body></html>