Wednesday, October 31, 2018

White Clouds — Тучки Белые



1.  Я бегу навстречу дали голубой,
     YA begu navstrechu dali goluboy,
     I   run    towards     distance  blue  (ie, blue horizon),

А вокруг сияньем залиты поля.
A vokrug siyan'yem zality polya.
And around radiance floods field

Тучки белые несутся надо мной
Tuchki belyye nesutsya nado mnoy
Clouds white rush / sweep over me

Одинокого оставли меня
Odinokogo ostavli menya
Lonely [they] left me.




2.  Ветер дышит ароматом полевым
     Veter dyshit aromatom polevym
     [The] wind breathes  [the] aroma [of the] field

И живит в борьбе уставшего меня.
I zhivit v bor'be ustavshego menya.
And animates in [the] struggle tiring  me
 (ie, and animates me in the tiring struggle)

          Поле кажется мне змилым, дорогим,
          Pole kazhetsya mne zmilym, dorogim,
          [The] field seems [to] me darling, sweet

          Будто родина делекая моя                                2x
          Budto rodina delekaya moya
          As if homeland far-away mine.
         (ie, as if [it is] my homeland far away.)


3.  Я хотел бы вместе с тучками лететь
     YA khotel by vmeste s tuchkami letet'
     I  would like together with [the] clouds to fly

Далеко от зла земного и невзгод,
Daleko ot zla zemnogo i nevzgod,
Far from   evil [of] earth and adversity

         В край небесный, где сияет вечный свет,
         V kray nebesnyy, gde siyayet vechnyy svet,
          In [the] country heavenly, where shines eternal light,

         Где пасет на злачных пажитях Господь.          2x
         Gde paset na zlachnykh pazhityakh Gospod'.
         Where tends [us] on grassy pastures [the] Lord.


Repeat 1 then repeat the last two lines of verse 1 with the two brothers.



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My theory as to where he filmed this—

West of US 97 a little north of the Columbia River in Washington.
Near the Windy Flats Wind Farm.

Why do I assume this?
  • It is close to the Merryhill Stonehenge Memorial just east of US 97 at the Columbia River.  Simon has posted other videos from that location: The Grace of Our Lord (2 Cor. 13:14).
  • In the background of the video you can see a wind farm behind him.  The shape of the hill below the wind turbines is similar to Windy Flats.
  • Google satellite view shows well-watered farm land tucked just north of Wash SR 14.
 Scene at 1' 15"---




Scene looking northeast from Wash. SR 14 at US 97 ---


6 comments:

  1. Interesting reading.
    I trust you have been blessed by doing all this work.

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    1. Indeed I have been blessed. I hope you and other are too.

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  2. Thanks for posting, David. I live back East, love geography and don't know any of the locations where he films, except the bridge at Natchez Trace! I ALWAYS want to know where's he's filming - such great scenes!

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    1. You are very welcome.
      Simon is based in Washington State and that means between the Columbia River, the Mountains, and the coastline, he has LOTS of scenery to choose from!

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  3. I also forgot to thank you for taking the efforts to translate literally, for I'm a beginning Russian language student and get lost at how далнеко and дали are different grammatical forms of the same word! I know далнеко, but I couldn't make the leap to see and therefore understand that Дали had the same meaning, so to speak. Point: what you've done helps me learn the language in a fun way! Yes, it's not the grammar, but it does increase my vocabulary in a painless manner. Thanks, David!

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    1. For your beginning studies, could I recommend a couple of on-line resources? Not fool-proof, but better that google translate.
      1) translate.yandex.com It focuses on European languages—especially Eastern Europe.
      2) en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ put your word in the search and it will (usually) parse it for you. Seriously! So cool!
      Anyway, God bless!

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