текст арииНа сцену медленно выходит Эзар. За его спиной появляется затаившийся после ухода графов на сцене Юрий.
Юрий:
Ты не утратил хватки за эти тридцать лет. Вот новый вклад в копилку блистательных побед! И вот теперь твой долгий труд удачно завершен. Не стыдно топать на тот свет? - С таким-то багажом!
Эзар:
Все решено, закончен тяжкий труд. Пожертвовал я сыном ради долга… Я верил, ждал, откладывал свой суд, Чтоб сына мне не пережить надолго.
Юрий:
Во благо государства затеяна война. Изящное коварство - смущает лишь цена! Избавиться от сына, угробив целый флот? Меня ты переплюнул аж на двести лет вперед!
Эзар:
Цена могла быть больше и страшней, Когда бы новый Юрий взял корону, Способный ради собственных страстей И ради мести попирать законы. Необходимо, чтобы цель вела Вперед, а не в года минувших бедствий. Добро придется сотворить из зла, И, значит, цель оправдывает средства.
Юрий:
Эзар, к чему ты клонишь? Ты, верно, позабыл - Меня здесь нет! Я умер! Ты сам меня убил! Но если в памяти твоей я все еще живой, Тогда все эти тридцать лет ты дрался… сам с собой.
Borrowing a bit from E. Medvedev's translation here...
Yuri: For thirty long years you've firmly held the state And now this great and final deed is chalked up to your slate So at the last you've reached the end of your victorious road, You stand prepared to meet your God - but bearing such a load!
Ezar: There is no doubt the task was very hard I've sacrificed my child to my duty I waited and postponed it while I could But in the end, my son could not survive me
Yuri: You chose to lose a war for the good of the state And bury your son's body with the bodies of your fleet A marvellous plot, what a shame about the price You couldn't have done it better if you'd asked for my advice!
Ezar: My son was on the edge of raving madness We'd have a second Yuri on the throne Unhindered by the law or even sense Attacking any who dared oppose him
It was the best thing that I could have done To stop him before he destroyed the state My sins are cancelled by my noble ends I stand by every choice that I have made
Yuri: Ezar, what are you thinking? You probably forgot. I'm dead, not even here. You left my corpse to rot. And if that memory of yours still lists me as alive, For thirty hard and tiring years you've fought yourself! Goodbye...
I'd like to work on this Yuri part for a bit - I'm still working on his other song and I'd like the character voicing to match. Ezar's part looks great.
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11.01.2012 в 22:42Esar, what are you thinking?
You probably forgot.
I'm dead, not even here.
You left my corpse to rot.
And if that memory of yours
Still lists me as alive,
For thirty hard and tiring years
You fought yourself! Goodbye...
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29.02.2012 в 21:03Yuri:
For thirty long years you've firmly held the state
And now this great and final deed is chalked up to your slate
So at the last you've reached the end of your victorious road,
You stand prepared to meet your God - but bearing such a load!
Ezar:
There is no doubt the task was very hard
I've sacrificed my child to my duty
I waited and postponed it while I could
But in the end, my son could not survive me
Yuri:
You chose to lose a war for the good of the state
And bury your son's body with the bodies of your fleet
A marvellous plot, what a shame about the price
You couldn't have done it better if you'd asked for my advice!
Ezar:
My son was on the edge of raving madness
We'd have a second Yuri on the throne
Unhindered by the law or even sense
Attacking any who dared oppose him
It was the best thing that I could have done
To stop him before he destroyed the state
My sins are cancelled by my noble ends
I stand by every choice that I have made
Yuri:
Ezar, what are you thinking? You probably forgot.
I'm dead, not even here. You left my corpse to rot.
And if that memory of yours still lists me as alive,
For thirty hard and tiring years you've fought yourself! Goodbye...
- Philomytha
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01.03.2012 в 06:54