Boris Godounov

PART TWO
Scene One

Night. A cell in the Chudov Monastery

(Pimen is writing by the light of a lamp. Grigory is sleeping.)

PIMEN

(pausing)

Just one more final tale
And my chronicle is finished.
The labour entrusted by God to me,
a humble sinner, is completed.

(writes)
(pauses)

It is not for nothing that the Lord
made me a witness for so many years.
One day an a__iduous monk
will find my zealous
and unsigned labours;
He will light
His lamp, as I do,
And brushing the dust of centuries
from the manuscripts,
He will copy out my truthful tales.
And the descendants of the Orthodox faithful
will know the past fate of their native land.

(grows pensive)

In my old age I am reliving everything again.
The past unfolds before me,
turbulent like the immense ocean.
Was it so long ago that it sped by
so full of events . . .
Now it is calm and silent! . . .
But the day approaches . . .
The lamp is burning down . . .

(He writes)

Just one more final tale . . .

(He continues writing.)

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