![]() Dearmer himself was only 20 years old when he wrote the words. When "Legend" is sung by English-speaking choirs, the words used are usually those of Geoffrey Dearmer, who translated Pleschcheyev's Russian text back into English for the English Carol Book (1913). The poem was included in Pleshcheyev's anthology Snowdrop (Подснeжник 1878), where it was found by Tchaikovsky. Pleshcheyev described the origin of the poem only as "translated from the English", without crediting Stoddard, the nature of whose contribution was thus lost. Stoddard's poem was translated into Russian by the poet Aleksey Pleshcheyev and published in the Russian journal Sem'ia i shkola ("Family and School") in 1877. The words are based on the poem "Roses and Thorns" by American poet Richard Henry Stoddard, originally published in Graham's Magazine of May 1856. Pleshcheyev's poem "Legend" (Legenda), as published in his collection Snowdrop (1878) ![]()
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