Léon Dalville l Demon [by M.Y. Lermontov]

A masterpiece of European Romantic poetry by famous Russian poet Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов), describing the Demon’s love for the mortal beauty.

Lyrics of the song (in current video):

[chorus]
He ... whom no one loves; who can blight
hopes with one glance, and bring them crashing;
who lives for lashing
his earthly slaves with furious beat,
the king of freedom and cognition,
heaven's foe, and nature's own perdition,
and yet, you see him at your feet!

[verse]
... from my guilty head
the thorny crown I relegated,
threw in the ashes all my days:
my heaven, my hell are in your gaze.
I love you with no earthly passion,
such love that уou could never find:
with rapture, in the towering fashion
of an immortal heart and mind.
My thoughts had long been stirred and racked
bу just one name of passing sweetness:
mу days in paradise had lacked
just your perfection for completeness.

1 x [chorus]

Translated by Charles Johnston.