"I weave my fragrant garland" "And with the scarlet ribbon from my wavy pIait" "I shall bind that fragrant garland" "I shall intertwine it with a double bloom" "My dark-haired lover will delight in it" "I shall drop my fragrant garland into the water" "And the silver wave will bear it away" "Greetings, Maria, greetings, my beauty, we'II sail along after you, oh, bright dawn of day" "And playing without you, lovely maiden, is wearisome" "Greetings, maidens, my dear companions" "I would come and play with you, and use the wreaths to foretell our lovers" "But I may not just now, for we have a guest at home" "The Hetman has come to visit" "You must sail down the swift river without me!" "well, it can't be helped if a guest has come to visit" "We shall have to tell our fortunes by the wreaths without you" "And sing songs and play!" "Let's sail away, girls, Iet's sail away, friends" "And strike up some songs!" "I weave my fragrant garland" "And with the scarlet ribbon from my wavy pIait" "I shall bind that fragrant garland" "I shall drop my fragrant garland into the water" "May the silver wave bear it away" "You love the songs, dear companions" "You love the girlish games!" "But I Iove one thing only" "To listen to Mazeppa and look upon his proud face" "Some incomprehensible power draws me to the Hetman" "By fate's unexpected, irrevocable decree I surrendered to him!" "With his wondrous eyes and his soft voice" "This elderly man has managed to bewitch me" "With his wondrous eyes and his soft voice" "This elderly man has managed to bewitch me" "I Iove everything about him, his greying temples, his deep wrinkles" "His bright, sunken gaze" "His sharp and witty talk" "I Iove everything about him, everything about him!" "Some incomprehensible power draws me to the Hetman" "By fate's unexpected, irrevocable decree I surrendered to him!" "With his wondrous eyes and his soft voice" "This elderly man has managed to bewitch me" "With his wondrous eyes" "And his soft voice" "This elderly man has managed to bewitch me" " I Iove him passionately!" " Maria!" "Oh!" "You frightened me!" "Forgive me, forgive me, Maria!" "Long have I Iooked in torment and anguish on your sorrows" "Long have I seen and understood and known" "What a fatal passion tortures you" "And I offer pity, the hand of friendship, consolation" "Oh, with all my heart I grieve for you, my angel" "I grieve for you, my angel!" "As you have discovered my secret" "I will confess to you" "I am not afraid to confide in you" "I know your generous friendship for me!" "Friendship!" "No!" "It's not friendship that draws me to you" "I've loved you since we were children with a passionate devotion" "At the evening, and at the morning hour" "Here, on the river bank" "In the shade of the spreading cherry trees" "How often have I waited for you" "Waited in torment" "And found consolation in a brief meeting" "I've loved you hopelessly" "I did not plague you with entreaties" "But humbly bowed my head before my bitter fate" "Oh, my poor friend, the fault is mine, forgive!" " Oh, how I am deceived by fate!" " You were always my faithful friend" " I have been yours since we were children" " My poor friend, I pity you" " Oh, the fault is mine, forgive me!" " I never plagued you... ..with my entreaties!" "And I, Iike you, am unhappy" "Do not reproach me, I am drawn for ever by an unknown destiny" "Oh, would I couId die of this passion" "But there is no strength in my poor heart to fight it" "I have no means of overcoming it, no means of overcoming it!" "alas!" "Bright vision of happiness, you have fled from us" "alas, fatal passion, you have poisoned life's every hour!" "I submit!" "Fate's dread will cannot be subdued by force" " And I, Iike you, am unhappy" " How bitter it is, how cruel" "Fate bids me to love eternally" "But my heart must suffer eternally too" "And I, Iike you, am unhappy, do not reproach me" "I am drawn for ever by an unknown destiny" "Oh, would I couId die of this passion" "But there is no strength in my poor heart to fight it" "I have no means of overcoming it, no means of overcoming it!" "Oh, would I couId die of this passion but there is no strength" "Why, oh, vision of happiness, did you fly from us for ever?" "I have no strength to fight it, I cannot conquer it" "Oh, farewell for ever, this lost happiness of ours!" " Forgive me for ever, my dear!" " Forgive me for ever, my dear!" " Forgive me for ever!" " Forgive me for ever!" "well, VasiIy, you honour me wonderfully" "It's really gratifying to an old man" "I thank you, I thank you from my heart!" "To my friend and host, to my dear hostess sincere regards and greetings!" "May their fair daughter, this dear sweet girl, have a thousand years of happiness" "A thousand years of happiness!" "Long life and years of glory to our Hetman!" "glory for ever!" "glory for ever!" "glory to him from his native Ukraine, glory for ever, glory for ever!" "I thank you all!" "But that's enough, you'II be turning this old head!" "tell the youngsters to strike up a merry song" "And also the dancers to give us a gopak!" "I Iike the old custom of having songs together with some bold dancing!" "Good Hetman!" "There'II be everything you wish." "I shall not keep you waiting" "Let's have some songs!" "call the dancers!" "There is no bridge here, no way to cross" "If you must, Hanna, you'II have to walk through the water" "Who needs a bridge, I'II manage to cross without a bridge" "The trouble is that some wicked folk will let my reputation go" "well, you lost your good reputation" "When you left your boy late at night, my girl" "Oh, how could I have left earlier, you know that yourself" "Dearest, you wouldn't let your beloved go any earlier!" "There is no bridge here!" "Oh, we don't need a bridge!" "There is no bridge here!" "Oh, we don't need a bridge!" "You've brought it on yourself" "How could I have left, you know well" "You've brought it on yourself" "How could I have left, you know well you wouldn't let your beloved leave earlier!" "You've brought it on yourself" "Late at night, my girl, late at night you left" "Late at night, my girl, late at night you left" "Eh, Hanna!" "You keep kissing and caressing and fondling her" "See what happens, when you're madly in love with someone?" "That's fine, I Iike that!" "If it weren't for my advancing years, I wouldn't mind joining the youngsters" "Thank you, my friend!" "Now, I've stayed too long, I must be off home" "only first, I have to speak with you on an important matter" "Good Hetman, I consider it an honour and a pleasure to converse with you" "Speak on!" "Good Hetman, it must be a joke, I don't believe it!" "I am not joking, VasiIy" "I speak from the heart, in all sincerity" "I beg Maria's hand" "I Iove her with all my heart!" "Good Hetman, you are old and grey" "while my daughter is in the full bloom of spring" "What of it, my friend?" "surely love is not forbidden to older men, and only to be enjoyed by youngsters?" "No, that's not my opinion, old men like me can experience love and emotion!" "Young love can flare up and die down again in an instant" "Love comes and goes" "And feelings change by the day" "But an old man's heart does not burn so slavishly, so readily" "Nor with such momentary passions" "But, hardened by the passage of years" "It stubbornly and slowly comes to feel the fire of love" "And a passion of later years does not grow cold" "But is quenched only at life's end" "And a passion of later years does not grow cold" "Does not grow cold" "But is quenched only at life's end!" "Mazeppa, I'm distressed by what you say" "You remember that you are Maria's godfather?" "Oh!" "That's nothing, I'II ask the church for a dispensation" "But how does Maria receive your love?" "You know what women are" "Young girls aren't very attracted to old men" "Dear friend, do not distress yourself" "I know Maria loves me" "You are amazed?" "Do you not believe me, VasiIy?" "Listen to me!" "Before I sought her hand in marriage" "I asked for her consent" "And received it" "But Hetman, I won't allow my child to be distressed" "I have a parent's authority over my daughter" "And I won't give you her hand" "Remember what I've said!" "You are a proud man, VasiIy" "But listen to what I say" "Maybe it's already too late for discussion" "And Maria is bound to be my wife!" "Hetman, there is a limit to everything" "I will not have my daughter so disgraced and so dishonoured" "No, I shall have to break the bonds of friendship" "I beg you to leave my honourable house!" "What?" "You would drive me from your house?" "Me, me?" "You have forgotten who I am!" "You crazy old man, tell me" "How could you forget all honour and conscience?" "I do not fear your power" "And I swear by God and truth" "I will not give up my pure darling" "To be sacrificed to your fierce passions" "It will never happen, never!" "The shameless, disgraceful old man, how could he?" "Fearsome is Mazeppa and strong, He is Hetman, ruler of Ukraine" "And his perfidious heart burns with sinful passion within him" "He should be her father." "Yet he wants to be her spouse" "It's madness, it's madness!" "Oh, Lord, punish him!" "Oh, woe betide us!" "You're crazy!" "You've forgotten who I am" "You've forgotten the sacred duty of obedience" "You're crazy, be sensible, calm yourself!" "How can I calm the grieving heart of my mother?" "He is ruler, the fearsome hetman!" "How can I beg my father to let me go and forgive me?" "Be sensible, you insolent fellow or I'II make you show respect" "There is no comfort for me, fate promises me nothing but grief!" "The crazy disgraceful old man!" "Whether I Iike it or not I must leave my home and parents" "Without him life is no life and death will be better" "calm yourself!" "The Hetman is powerful, the hetman is strong!" "I do not fear your power" "I swear by God and truth I will not give my darling up to you!" "Mazeppa is fearsome and strong." "He is Hetman, ruler of Ukraine!" "With his mighty strength he will crush you in the dust" "He would abduct our pure darling!" "His perfidious heart burns with sinful passion within him" "We will not give up our pure darling to be sacrificed to him!" "Come, my men!" "To arms!" "Come, servants, and all my friends, we shall not submit to this insult!" "You must submit to my power!" "Just you dare come near!" "You dogs!" "My word is law for you" "You accursed Muscovite..." "We will chop you in pieces!" " Curse the wretches!" " I am the Hetman, the ruler!" "evil Muscovites!" "You must submit!" "Father!" "Oh, Hetman!" "Cease your quarreIIing, I beg you!" "Come!" "Put down your sabres and replace them in their sheaths!" "Kochubey!" "I was wrong to show my anger" "The lion ought not to fight with the sheep!" "Just give me one brief moment, one brief moment" "And I'II send both you and your lackeys into oblivion!" "We'II continue our discussion in a different way, you arrogant fellow!" "Mazeppa came here not to plunder, not to steal your treasures" "But to take freely what belongs to him" "You can't expect any good from this powerful villain" "You can't expect any good, it all promises woe for me!" "You can't expect any good from the words of this powerful villain" "Let your daughter choose freely what she wants" "Maria!" "Make your decision." "will you come with me away from here" "Or are we to part for ever?" "Oh, God!" " Maria!" " My darling daughter!" "Are you mine?" "I'm yours!" "Can this be true?" "Maria loves him!" "If you are mine, come with me!" "VasiIy!" "For your fond welcome, I thank you!" "Beware of my gratitude!" "Come, everyone!" "To your horses!" "We'II ride behind you, good Hetman" "Oh, God!" "Mazeppa is a villain" "As the storm brings clouds over the sky" "So a mother's heart is darkened with bitter grief" "As the dew falls on the meadows" "So a mother's tears fall like dew" "As she weeps for her daughter" "Where are you, my child, my dearest child?" "Why did you leave the nest where you belong?" "You chose to yield to the clutches of the evil kite" "And left your mother and father alone" "In sorrow and disgrace you left them bereaved for ever" "You left them bereaved for ever!" "As the storm brings clouds over the sky" "So a mother's heart is darkened with bitter grief" "As the dew falls on the meadows" "So a mother's tears fall like dew" "As she weeps for her daughter" "Abandon your grief, Kochubey!" "You have friends enough!" "You can deck yourself with glory, you can incite PoItava" "By suddenly appearing at his gates" "And using a father's vengeance, you can strike at the proud villain" "You can with a true hand thrust..." "No!" "A different thought disturbs my mind" "I'II tell you" "But swear to me a solemn oath that you will keep secret what I wish to say!" "We swear by our honour, we swear by our sabres" "We swear by our blood, that we will not betray you" "But with you we'II take revenge on our enemy Mazeppa!" "Listen then" "In former days when Mazeppa and I sat at table together" "And shared, as friends, our innermost thoughts" "We often had long talks together" "To me the devious Hetman" "would sometimes reveal the depths of his rebellious, insatiable soul" "And in words obscure in meaning" "Refer to the future changes in his plans, negotiations and rebellions" "But I couId see his hidden meaning" "Mazeppa, storming with fury, conceived a dangerous plot" "To betray the Russian Tsar and join the Swedes" "Hoping with them to gain the victory" "But it is time we gave warning of the Hetman's intrigues" "I shall reveal them, I shall reveal them to the Tsar" "Into Peter's power, into Peter's power I'II deliver up the enemy!" "Yes, it is time we warned of the Hetman's intrigues" "reveal them boldly, reveal them boldly to the Tsar" "Into Peter's power, into Peter's power, deliver up the enemy!" "The attack is weII-pIanned, my friends, I agree with Kochubey" "We'II conquer him for sure, the enemy's fate is sealed!" "But who, afire with zeal, and eager to help the common good" "will face Peter's disbelief, and boldly before him denounce the mighty tyrant?" "I will do it, if you entrust the job to me" "Andrey, you were always devoted to my family" "We have thought of you as our son" "And I believe that you will fulfil this sacred task" "But do you realise, my son, that for this deed" "You may pay with your life?" "I know, father, but I place no value on my Iife" "alas, there is no joy in living" "Since my whole happiness, the one we both share" "Was stolen by that vile Mazeppa" "I breathe revenge, have one thought only" "To take vengeance on that heartless villain" "Send me, send me to the Tsar!" "I'II fly straight as an arrow to the capital" "Swifter than a bird I will deliver destruction on our enemy Mazeppa," "Send him, send him to the Tsar" "He will fly straight as an arrow to the capital" "Swifter than a bird he will deliver" "Destruction on our enemy Mazeppa" "I thank you, Andrey" "I thank you too, my friends, for your devotion and your sympathy" "My tormented soul is now revived" "Away with tears and lamentations!" "I shall live for brutal vengeance alone" "And you, old man, shall repay me for my daughter!" "No, you shameless seducer, no, you tyrant" "I will spare your dwelling, my daughter's prison" "You shall not smouIder in the fire" "You shall not breathe your last at the blow of Cossack's sabre" "No, you villain!" "At the hands of Moscow's executioners, when blood flows at your vain denials" "As you writhe on the rack when they torture, you will curse the day and the hour" "You will curse the day and the hour" "When you became godfather to our daughter!" "At the hands of Moscow's executioners" "When blood flows at your vain denials" "As you writhe on the rack when they torture you will curse the day and the hour" "You will curse the day and the hour" "When you became godfather to our daughter" "You villain, you'II curse the day and the hour" "When you, you tyrant, became godfather to our daughter!" "You'II remember the feast and the cup of honour" "Which I poured out for you as a friend" "And the day when you, old vulture, went after our darling!" "You'II remember the feast and the cup of honour" "Which your host and friend poured for you!" "You'II remember the feast and the cup of honour" "And the day you, you vulture, went after our darling!" "At the hands of Moscow's executioners" "When blood flows at your vain denials" "As you writhe on the rack when they torture you" "You will curse the day and the hour when you became godfather to our daughter!" "Yes, you'II curse the day and the hour" "When you became godfather to our daughter" "You'II curse it, you villain" "When you're in the hands of Moscow's executioners" "Mazeppa, vengeance awaits you" "You'II remember that dreadful hour" "Mazeppa, vengeance awaits you" "You villain, you'II remember that dreadful day" "Vengeance, vengeance!" "You'II remember that dreadful hour" "You'II remember that dreadful hour" "Mazeppa!" "Mazeppa!" "Vengeance awaits you, vengeance awaits you!" "So this is the reward for my information" "For true and just information!" "The lying Hetman sIandered me and Iskra before the Tsar" "And the Tsar has delivered us up to him who has betrayed our land!" "Tomorrow is the execution" "But fearless I await that dreadful execution" "What is death?" "A Iong-awaited sleep" "I'm ready to lie in the bloody grave" "sleep overwheIms me" "But, dear, honest God!" "Oh, honest God!" "To faII in silence at the villain's feet, Iike a dumb creature" "To be handed over by the Tsar into the power of the Tsar's enemy for desecration" "To lose my Iife, and with it honour" "To drag my friends with me to the block" "To hear at the graveside their curses, and as I lie blameless beneath the axe" "To face the triumphant gaze of my enemy and rush into death's embraces" "Leaving behind no one to avenge me!" "I hear the key rattling in the rusty lock" "They're coming" "Here he is" "Here is the leader I must follow on my bloody path beneath the banner of the cross" "The great absoIver of sins the physician of spiritual grief" "The servant of the crucified Christ!" "No, it's not the holy father" "But another visitor that I see" "It's you, you cruel man!" "Why must Mazeppa disturb my last night's sleep?" "The interrogation is not finished." "Answer me!" "I have already answered" "Be off, leave me alone!" "The Hetman demands a full confession" "Of what?" "I have confessed to everything you wanted" "My testimony is all false" "I am crafty, I am plotting intrigues, the Hetman is right" "What more do you want?" "We know that you were immensely rich" "We know that in Dikanka" "You have hidden more than one treasure-trove" "Your execution must be carried out" "Your property will be completely handed over to the army, such is the Iaw" "I order you to perform one last duty" "tell us where the treasures are" "Your hidden treasures" "No, you are not mistaken" "Three treasures have given me joy in this life" "The first treasure was my honour" "But torture stripped me of this treasure" "The second is now lost for ever" "The honour of my beloved daughter" "Day and night I trembled for it" "And Mazeppa stole this treasure!" "But I have kept the Iast treasure" "My third treasure: holy vengeance" "And I must leave God to deal with this" "I must leave God to deal with this" "old man, cease these empty ravings!" "Tomorrow, as you leave this world, savour this grim thought" "This is not the time for joking" "Answer me, answer me, unless you want fresh torture" " Where have you hidden the money?" " You evil villain!" "will you never cease this absurd interrogation?" "Wait a little, Iet me go to my grave" "Then you and Mazeppa can be off to count my legacy" "And with bIood-stained fingers rummage through my cellars" "Cut down and burn every house and garden" "Take my daughter with you" "She herself will tell you everything, she herself will show you all the treasures" "But in the name of the Lord, I beseech you, now leave me in peace" "I am preparing to stand before the one who will be your judge too" "Before whom on the day of judgement you must answer" "For the blood you have shed, for the blood you have shed" "And for all your falsehood!" "Where have you hidden the money?" "Show me, show me" "So you won't?" "The money, the money, where is it?" "tell me, or it'II be the worse for you" "Come on, tell us the place" "tell us where the money is!" "Where, where is the money?" "still no word?" "well, torture him!" "Come, executioner!" "Oh, night of torment!" "How still is the Ukrainian night" "The sky is crystal clear, the stars are glittering" "A drowsy slumber fills the air" "The leaves of the silver poplars scarcely quiver" "But my troubled soul is filled with gloomy visions" "And the night stars, Iike accusing eyes, look mockingIy at me" "And the poplars, close together" "Are swaying and whispering like judges" "And in the summer's warmth the darkness of night is as stifling as a gloomy dungeon" "This madman Kochubey shall die!" "I cannot save him now" "The nearer the Hetman's goal, the firmer must be the power he holds" "And the lower must his enemies bow before him" "They cannot be saved!" "The informer and his minion must perish" "God, oh, God!" "What will she do when she hears of their fate?" "well?" "I've pressured him and tortured him" "But he's firm and stubborn, that arrogant old man" "And he didn't tell us a thing!" "He shall die tomorrow" "Prepare the execution for the morning" "But Hetman" "Be off!" "You ferocious hangman!" "Be off!" "And carry out your bloody deed" "AII that is most precious" "AII that makes life dear the poor creature gave to me" "To me - a dreary old man" "And now what?" "What a blow I'm preparing for her!" "Oh, Maria!" "In my declining years you, Iike the spring, revived my spirit" "And the passionate murmur of your sweet words" "Worked as a spell to charm this old man!" "With you I have lived through moments of ardent passion and bliss" "When I embraced your wondrous body" "And in Ianguid bliss feasted my eyes upon your beauty" "Your tender gaze revived me" "And in my veins the blood flowed faster" "In your embraces I found rapture, rejuvenation rejuvenation and paradise!" "Rapture and rejuvenation" "Your tender gaze revived me" "And in my veins the blood flowed faster" "In your embraces I found paradise!" "In your embraces I found paradise!" "In your love there was rapture" "Rapture and rejuvenation" "How I Iove you!" "My dearest love!" "My bright young darling!" "Ah, at last we are together" "I haven't seen you all day, it's torture!" "Maria, you know I would gladly be with you every day and every hour" "But the problems of government tear me away unwiIIingIy from your caresses" "No, these last few days you've been cold and unwelcoming to me" "You have not responded, as you used to, to my tender caresses" "And my heart, so full of love, is tormented by suspicion" "Listen, Hetman, for you I gave up everything in the world" "For evermore, since loving you, I have one thing on my mind - your love!" "And for its sake I destroyed all happiness!" "But I regret nothing" "Do you remember, do you remember" "How in the dreadful silence of that night when I became yours" "You swore to love me" "So why do you not love me?" "My dear, you are unjust!" "Forsake these senseless fancies" "You are tormenting yourself with these suspicions!" "Your tortured soul is distraught and blinded by passion" "Maria, believe me, I Iove you" "Maria, believe me, I Iove you more than glory, more than power" "It is not true, you are playing false with me" "Were we not for a Iong time inseparable?" "Now you avoid my caresses" "And you find them tiresome" "You spend all day with the colonels, feasting or on patrol, and I am forgotten" "The whole night long you're either alone, or with the poor, or the Jesuit" "My humble devotion is met with chili formality" "I know not long ago you were drinking the health of one DuIskaya" "That's new to me." "Who is this DuIskaya?" "Are you jealous?" "would I, at my age" "Seek assignation with some proud beauty?" "And would I, a serious, mature man, be sighing like some idle youth" "Carrying this burden of shame" "And seducing wives by deception?" "Carrying this burden of shame" "And seducing wives by deception?" "tell me, don't make excuses Give me a straight and simple answer!" "Your peace of mind is dear to me, Maria!" "Here is the truth!" "Long has my mind been working on a plan" "Now my blood quickens at the thought of action" "A blessed time has come upon us" "The hour is near for mighty battle, the hour is near" "Without sweet liberty and glory" "We have long bent our heads" "Beneath the protection of Warsaw and the despotism of Moscow" "But now it is time for the Ukraine to become an independent state" "And I raise the banner of bloody freedom against Peter" "AII is prepared: both kings are supporting me" "And soon, amidst the tumult and harsh disputes" "I shall maybe ascend the throne!" "Are you content?" "Are your doubts now dispersed?" "Oh, my dearest, you will be Tsar of our homeland" "The Tsar's crown will so become your grey hairs" "The Tsar's crown will so become them!" "Oh, my dearest, you will be Tsar of our homeland" "The Tsar's crown will so become your grey hairs" "Wait, this has not all happened yet" "A storm threatens, and who knows what awaits me" "When I am near you I know no fear, you are so powerful!" "Oh, I know it" "The throne, the throne awaits you!" "But what if it's the gallows?" "Then I will go to the gallows with you!" "How could I Iive without you?" "But no!" "You bear the mark of power!" "Do you love me?" "Do I Iove you?" "You are dearer to me than all else!" "I gave up everything for you!" "So you do love me!" "tell me, is your father or your husband dearer to you?" "My dear friend, why ask such a question?" "It troubles me in vain" "I am trying to forget my family" "I have become a disgrace to him" "Perhaps (terrible words!" ") I have been cursed by my father" "But for what purpose?" "Am I dearer to you than your father?" "You are silent" "Oh, God!" "So tell me!" "Answer!" "Say it yourself!" "You are pale" "Your words are severe" "You are dearer to me than anything." "For you I am ready for anything" "But such words are terrible to me" "Enough, enough!" "Remember, Maria" "Remember these words of yours" "Ah, how pale you are!" "Forgive me, Maria!" "Forgive me, my dearest!" "Bright treasure of my Iife" " Forgive me!" " Forgive me, and believe that I Iove you!" "How the stars twinkle in the sky, how silent is the night" "And how everything breathes peace and happiness" "But why is my soul filled with foreboding and my heart troubled by secret grief?" "I can imagine my father and mother, I can see them through my tears" "alone and childless in their old age and it seems I hear their cries" "Maria, my daughter!" "Mother!" "Oh, heavens!" "You here with me!" "Mother dear!" "Hush, hush!" "Don't ruin us." "I have stolen here at night" "With one tearful plea!" "Today is the execution!" "You alone, you alone can assuage their fury" "They intend to execute your father, they are cruel and godless!" "Save your father, save your father" "Oh, my daughter, I beseech you, save your father!" "What father?" "What execution?" "Do you still not understand?" "No, you can't live in a dream world, you must know" "How threatening is the Hetman's power" "How all his enemies are routed" "And how the sovereign gives heed to him" "But I see you reject your sorrowing family for Mazeppa's sake" "I find you quite calm while they are carrying out a brutal trial" "while they are reading out the sentence" "while the axe is prepared for your father" "I see we have become strangers to one another" "Come to your senses, Maria, my child!" "Run and fall at his feet" "Save your father, be our saviour!" "You alone, you alone can assuage their fury" "You can stay the axe" "Ask him, the Hetman will not refuse you" "For his sake you sacrificed your honour, your family and God" "Beg him, beseech him, spare no pains, beg him" "The Hetman will not refuse" "For his sake you sacrificed your honour, your family and God" "Go, beg him, beg for mercy from the villains" "Oh, save your father, save him!" "Oh, what has befallen me?" "My father..." "Mazeppa..." "Execution" "And here in this castle, my mother with entreaties!" "No, no!" "Either I am going mad" "Or I am dreaming" "God be with you" "No, no, these are no dreams, no fantasies!" "Are you really unaware" "That your father has become embittered" "He could not endure his daughter's disgrace" "And, maddened by a thirst for revenge, has denounced the Hetman to the Tsar" "Do you still not understand?" "My God!" "Oh, my daughter!" "My God!" "Under bloody torture he confessed to cunning tricks" "Shamed by the senseless slander" "And you still do not understand" " Do you still not understand..." " Poor father!" "..that as victim of his courageous innocence he is betrayed to the enemy" "And before a huge assembly" "If he is not shielded by the divine hand of the Lord" "He is to be executed today!" "Today!" "My God!" "And I am to blame for everything!" "You alone, you alone can assuage their fury" "They wish to execute your father, they are cruel and godless!" "The execution is today, they will kill my father" "And I am to blame for everything" "I have not the strength to bear it!" "Oh, woe is me" "I have slain my own father" "Oh, Mother!" "Forgive me!" "My child!" "Maria!" "What ails you?" "Maria!" "My daughter!" "My God!" "The troops are coming" "They bring him to execution" "She does not hear me, time is short, Maria!" "I don't remember" "I don't understand what's been happening, who was here with me?" "They are leading your father to execution" "Save him, save him!" " Hurry" " Let's go" " Hurry" " Let's run..." " I beseech you - ..as quick as I can!" " Save him, save your father!" " Hurry!" "will it be soon?" "Are they bringing them or not?" "I can't hear anything ..." "Oh, if only they'd hurry!" "We can hardly wait, if only they'd hurry!" "My heart's stopped beating from fear!" "Oh, Lord!" "Consider what a life we have!" "That rich, distinguished Iandowners should lie on the block!" "O Lord!" "Consider what a life we have!" "Such distinguished, rich landowners, and now suddenly they lie on the block beneath the axe!" "Such distinguished Iandowners" "And suddenly they must lie on the block!" "Oh, God, have mercy on us" "deliver us from such misfortunes, oh, Lord!" "fearful is the anger of Moscow's Tsar and terrible Mazeppa's judgement" "He puts his enemies to death." "Mazeppa punishes his enemies with death" "fearful is the anger of Moscow's Tsar and terrible Mazeppa's judgement" "Mazeppa punishes his enemies with death" "fearful, fearful is Mazeppa's judgement!" "A pretty young girl, not stuck-up or proud" "Hey-ho, fiddIe-de-dee, what a flighty one is she!" "Just raised her eyebrow, and flirted with a Cossack" " FiddIe-de-dee, what a flighty one is she!" " Hey, hold your tongue!" " Where have you sprung from?" " ..and served it up to the Cossack" " Do you want to be next on the gallows?" " Hey-ho, what a flighty one is she!" "They're waiting for an execution, and you sing and dance, blast you!" "What's wrong then?" "Why shouldn't I dance and sing?" "They're going to chop off some landowners' heads, but what's that to me?" "The devil take their souls!" "Shut up, you drunken lout!" "Stop his mouth for him, Cossacks!" "What a time to think of singing songs!" "Gave him pumpkin and potatoes, enough to fill him up" "Hey-ho, fiddIe-de-dee, what a flighty one is she!" "Baked some dumplings, and poured him vodka" " Hey-ho, what a flighty one is she!" " Turk!" "Come, good woman, that's a slander." "I'm neither Turk nor Tatar" "I'm a free Cossack, and if now, for instance" "Any of you, my dears, need some smart boots" "Then, give me a kiss, and you'II have them." "By God, that's the sort of fellow I am" "Or I'm no Cossack!" "well, be off, this isn't the place for drunkards to be fooling around" "Be off with you!" "A pretty young girl, not stuck-up or proud" "Hey-ho, fiddIe-de-dee, what a flighty one is she!" "clear off, clear off!" "The fearful hour is nigh, the hour of execution is nigh!" "Look, here come the executioners, here are the executioners." "Look, look!" "Here they are!" "Get along!" "Get along!" "Here they are!" "Curse you!" "Get along!" "Get along!" "Get along!" "Dust is rising on the road" "They're coming" " Where?" " There!" "Look, there!" "Over there, look!" "Yes, you can see" " It's them, it's them!" " No, it's not!" "It's the Hetman!" "Look, the Hetman" "Raise your caps!" "The fearful hour is nigh" "The hour of execution is nigh!" "The hour of execution is nigh!" "The fearful hour is nigh!" "The hour of execution is nigh!" "Look, they're getting nearer" "There they are" "You can see them" "They're being brought in!" "Here they are" "Here they are" "The wretched Iandowners!" "My friend, Iet us offer up for the Iast time to God on high our prayer of repentance!" "AII-powerfuI redeemer of our sins" "Lead me to thy dwelling" "Stretch out to me thy gracious hand" "I beg forgiveness for my sins" "And I will forget the torture of execution" "And give thanks for my death" "Hear my prayers of repentance" "And bathed in light I will go to that place" "Where there is neither sorrow nor sighing" "Nor the trials" "Of this earthly life!" "Hear their prayers of repentance" "Grant absoIution for their sins" "Receive them, Lord, in that place" "Where there is neither sorrow" "Nor sighing" "Nor the trials" "Of this earthly life!" "Oh, God!" "Forgive the poor souls!" "Forgive them, oh, Lord" "Forgive them that suffer!" "In bloody battle, on the field of honour" "I sought you everywhere, Mazeppa, you, you villain!" "Oh, if only I had met you I swear on my sabre" "You would now be lying defeated in the dust!" "But the traitor has fled the battlefield" "And my soul, which so longed for revenge, was not granted this sweet pleasure" "In bloody battle, burning with desire for vengeance" "I sought you everywhere, Mazeppa" "Yes, you, you villain!" "Oh, if only I had met you I swear on my sabre" "You would now be lying defeated in the dust" "I swear on my sabre you would now be lying defeated in the dust!" "I have come here to look at the places" "Where ever since our childhood dearest Maria and I" "Have shared our dreams and our delights" "Where I did love, where tears were shed" "For her, my sweetheart who is now destroyed for ever" "And for my ruined happiness!" "Here days passed by in happy succession" "Here beauty's angel shone, here I Ioved and hoped for happiness" "But all is gone, vanished like smoke" "The house is empty and deserted" "And all around is silence and gloom" "Oh, where are you, where, my dearest?" "Let me see you, if only as a flitting shadow" "smile as you used to smile, and inspire my heart with hope again" "Where are you, where are you, where, my dearest?" "Let me see you, if only as a flitting shadow" "smile as you used to smile and inspire my heart with hope again" "Oh, where are you, where, my dearest?" "But all is silent" "There is no answer" "How soundIess, fearful, fearful is the darkness of the grave" "Here days passed by in happy succession" "Here beauty's angel shone" "Here I Ioved and hoped for happiness" "But all is gone, vanished like smoke" "The house is empty and deserted" "And all around is silence and gloom" "Where, where are you, where, my dearest?" "Let me see you, if only as a flitting shadow!" "Oh, may the end I long for come to me" "Oh, death, my friend so long desired" "Grant me oblivion and peace" "Grant me oblivion and peace" "Oh, death, my friend so long desired" "Grant me oblivion and peace" "Grant me oblivion" "Grant me oblivion and peace!" "Grant me oblivion" "oblivion and peace!" "Grant me oblivion and peace!" "I hear in the distance the clatter of horses' hooves" "Yes!" "There are two men approaching" "Who are they?" "Perhaps they are Swedes." "I must hide" "Here, OrIik, Iet the horses rest" "The pursuers have lost our tracks, Iet's rest awhile" "Let's rest, good Hetman!" "He calls me Hetman" "I was Hetman!" "But now..." "I am a homeless fugitive, by my people cursed as a traitor!" "In a single day hurled into the dust by a whim of chance, by the folly of that king..." "But, oh, God!" "Where am I?" "Oh, fate, fate" "How you punish this old Mazeppa" "How you mock him in this cruel way!" "Here's a voice I know!" "Is this fugitive a friend or foe?" "What!" "You, you, Mazeppa!" "You destroyer of sacred innocence" "Do you recognise now the dwelling and the home, the happy home that used to be" "Where now is total gloom and desolation?" "Do you recognize the safe and sheltered abode" "Where the angel of peace used to live" "And the garden, where you would go at dead of night to meet with her?" "I recognized it, I recognized it!" "Why do you reproach me in this violent and angry way?" "What do you want of me, Andrey?" "What do I want?" "I want your death!" "In bloody battle, burning with desire for vengeance" "I sought you everywhere, Mazeppa" "You must die, you must die!" "Your hour has come, your hour has come!" "Andrey, respect my grey hairs!" "Oh, you traitor, you preying vulture!" "Show me respect in my misfortune!" "You despicable, Ioathsome old man!" "But if you raise a hand against me, I tell you I am not unarmed!" "You destroyer of sacred innocence!" " Andrey, respect my grey hairs!" " Seducer of a pure darling!" "Respect me in my misfortune" "Curse the day, curse the hour, when you took her from us!" "You shall answer for the crime" " But if you raise a hand against me" " I will strike you down without compunction" "I tell you I am not unarmed!" "Die then, die, and at the cruel moment of death" "My curse shall be upon you, evil man!" "Unhappy man!" "God knows, I did not wish for your destruction!" "Hey, OrIik, where are you?" "Come here quickly!" "What do I see?" "Is it a dream?" "Maria, is it you?" "Is it you?" "Oh, hush, hush, hush, my dear!" "Just now my father and my mother have closed their eyes" "Stop, stop!" "They might hear us" "Maria!" "Poor Maria!" "Come to your senses!" "Heavens!" "What has happened to you?" "What is wrong?" "Just listen what schemes they plotted" "What a ridiculous story they told me!" "She told me a secret" "That my poor father was dead" "And she silently pointed out to me a greying head" "Oh, Lord!" "How can we escape such evil lies?" "Just imagine" "The head was nothing like a human head, but a wolf's" "And with such a one she tried to deceive me!" "Is it not shameful of her?" "Is it not shameful of her to torment me?" "And what for?" "And what for?" "So that I'd not dare run away with you today!" "Maria, poor Maria, how fearful is this crazy madness!" "Come to your senses, poor Maria!" "I remember a field." "Noise and celebration" "And the crowd and the bodies of the dead" "My mother took me to the festival" "But where were you, where were you?" "Where?" "Where were you?" "Why do I wander through the night without you?" "Let's go home, quickly, it's late, Iet's go home, Iet's go quickly!" "I see, my head is full of senseless turmoil" "I took you for another, old man!" "Leave me!" "Your look is mocking and terrible" "You are ugly, he is handsome" "He is handsome!" "Love burns in his eyes, and in his words there is such comfort" "His moustache is whiter than snow, but yours is congealed with blood!" "Unhappy Maria!" "Let's run away, Iet's run away" "I hear a noise some people are coming" "They're getting nearer, Iet's hurry, every moment is precious!" "But how can we leave her here?" "Let's take her, Iet's take her with us!" "Take her?" "This crazy girl?" "Good Hetman, you've lost your reason over this girl" "Take her?" "Her?" "Or is she dearer to you than your own head?" "Let's go, Iet's go!" "Let's go!" "Hurry!" "Let's go!" "The old man's gone" "How my heart beats" "How tired I am" "How I long to rest!" "blood, blood again!" "And my father's body" "And my mother's demented weeping!" "And always the same dream..." "The axe..." "The executioner!" "No, this is not dream" "Here sleeps a child in the thick grass" "sleep, my dear one" "sleep, my sweet one" "sleep, my darling" "Maria!" "Hush!" "This is a voice I know" "He used to sing me songs in the days" "When I often as a girl used to walk in our lush garden" "When we together in a little boat used to glide along the river" "Wake up, I am dying" "Wake up, I am dying" "And I cannot help you" "My eyes grow dim, as though the chill of night were creeping over me" "alas, your image grows pale." "Bend your head towards me, Maria" "My hour of death is come" "I want for the Iast time" "To satisfy my longing to see you" "To prolong for one moment this blessed life" "Maria, bend your head to me!" "sleep, my baby, my pretty" "sleep, my dear, sleep, my darling!" "LuIIa, lullaby!" "brightly shines the radiant moon, peeping into your cradle" "LuIIa, lullaby!" "Maria, wake up, I am dying" "Wake up, I am dying" "And I cannot help you!" "Oh, I know that voice!" " My eyes grow dim..." " He used to sing songs to me... ..as though the chill of night were creeping over me" " alas, your image grows pale..." " ..the dear voice, he used to sing to me... ..bend your head to me, Maria!" "My hour of death is come" "The last, dreadful hour" "I am dying" "Oh, the agony, the agony" "For the Iast time" "farewell, farewell, Maria!" "farewell, farewell!" "sleep, my baby, my pretty" "sleep, my dear, sleep, my darling" "LuIIa, lullaby" "brightly shines the radiant moon, peeping into your cradle" "LuIIa, lullaby" "I will watch your gentle sleeping, guard your slumber where you lie" "LuIIa, lullaby" "sleep!" "sleep, my darling" "sleep, my child!"