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The Song of the Cheese Spirit

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Musical fantasias based on Ivan Krylov's
fable "The Crow and the Fox"

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Oft has the world

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heard words like these:

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"Flattery's vile!"

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and yet,

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it's still a potent art -

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A liar's sure

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to find

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a place in someone's heart.

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A crow, by grace of God,

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obtained

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a piece

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of cheese;

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She scaled a fir tree and, at last,

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Was just about to break her fast,

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But

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had a thought,

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the cheese

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still in her bill.

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Not far away, a fox

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was running up the hill;

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Ah!

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What a scent...

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the odour stops the fox.

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The fox looks, sees the cheese;

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the cheese entices, mocks.

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The rogue advances to the fir-tree
on tip-toe;

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She twirls her tail,
her eyes fixed on the crow,

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And gently says,

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in accents low and clear: -

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"My songstress, you

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are

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such a dear!

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Your neck's so fine,

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your eyes so pretty!

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Your fame would spread through any

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city!

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What pretty feathers!

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What a bill!

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And doubtless, your angelic voice is

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finer still!

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Sing, sunshine, don't be shy!

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If, sister, in your leisure,

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Your beauty were abetted

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by song

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that gave us pleasure, -

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You'd be the queen of birds,

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my treasure!"

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The harbinger's head spun
from such effusive praise,

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It took her breath away,
her crop filled with elation, -

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And, answering the words
that set her pride ablaze,

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The vain crow

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cawed out loud

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with full determination:

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The

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cheese fell -

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that fox slick

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Made off with it right quick.

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Musical solution: Duo "Zikr"
(Olga Tkachenko and Igor Silin),

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Vladimir Solyanik, Sergey Hmelyov

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script, direction, design:
Irina Smirnova

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camera Irina Sergeyeva
animator Natalya Marchenkova
montage Yuliya Srebnitskaya


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(c) Closed Joint-stock company "Artis"
1997

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translation by Niffiwan
Oct 2023 @ animatsiya.net