🐎 MAZEPPA: 3. The Band of Chiefs - MS_Pierrot (2026) скачать в хорошем качестве

🐎 MAZEPPA: 3. The Band of Chiefs - MS_Pierrot (2026)

from the album 🐎 MAZEPPA: ACT I - Fall and Captivity, part of the rock opera album 🐎 MAZEPPA - A Rock Opera. A bilingual (EN/UA) spoken-word rock opera based on “Mazeppa” (1819) by Lord Byron and Ukrainian translations by Oleksa Veretenchenko. Performed by MS_Pierrot (2026). Dedicated to my brother W. [Verse] A band of chiefs!—alas! how few, Since but the fleeting of a day Had thinned it; but this wreck was true And chivalrous: upon the clay Each sate him down, all sad and mute, Beside his monarch and his steed; For danger levels man and brute, And all are fellows in their need. [Verse] Among the rest, Mazeppa made His pillow in an old oak's shade— Himself as rough, and scarce less old, The Ukraine's Hetman, calm and bold; [Verse] But first, outspent with this long course, The Cossack prince rubbed down his horse, And made for him a leafy bed, And smoothed his fetlocks and his mane, And slacked his girth, and stripped his rein, And joyed to see how well he fed; [Verse] For until now he had the dread His wearied courser might refuse To browse beneath the midnight dews: But he was hardy as his lord, And little cared for bed and board; [Verse] But spirited and docile too, Whate'er was to be done, would do. Shaggy and swift, and strong of limb, All Tartar-like he carried him; [Verse] Obeyed his voice, and came to call, And knew him in the midst of all: Though thousands were around,—and Night, Without a star, pursued her flight,— [Outro] That steed from sunset until dawn His chief would follow like a fawn.