Текст песни Валентин Сильвестров - Диптих

Cantata Diptych (1995)
dedicated to Marjan Kots

1. Our Father
2. Testament (to the words of Taras Shevchenko)

Chapel "Dumka" under the leadership of Eugene Savchuk
Kiev, Church of St. Nicholas Naberezhny, December 1996

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1

Our Father
see thou shalt be in heaven!
Hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom be upon you,
Thy will be done,
as in heaven and earth.
Bless our day, give us this day:
and leave us our debts
Just like we leave to our debtors:
and do not lead us into the temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
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Amen.

2

Yak die, then cheer
Mene at the grave
Middle step wide
On Ukrainian Miles,

Shchob fallow-deer broad-wide,
І Dnіpro, і kruchі
Bulo is visible, Bulo is almost
Yak roaring.

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Kick that get up
Kaydani break
I with enemy evil blood
Will be sprinkled.

I’m in this’s great,
In this’s free, new,
Don’t forget to remember
Invisible in a quiet word.