Г.Виноградов Талисман/ Russian Romance

Георгий Виноградов. Талисман . Старинный русский романс.(Н.Титов - А. Пушкин). Georgi Vinogradov. Talisman (My Talisman). Old Russian Romance ( - ). There in the land where the waves break, on empty shores, forever, and where the moonlight makes a sweet, warm twilight hour, where the harem’s languid days delight the Mussulman, there an enchantress caressed me, and gave me this Talisman. And, caressingly, she said ’My Talisman will not save you from sickness or from death in tempest or in storm, but in it there is power, my Beloved, mysterious virtue. It is the gift of Love, so take care of my Talisman.’ ’It will not bring you riches out of the shining East. It will not force the Prophet’s horde to obey you in the least. It will not transport you from a dreary, alien land, from south to north, to your native place, to your friends, my Talisman.’ ’But w