Byt' mozhet uzh ne dolgo mne

Byt' mozhet, uzh ne dolgo mne
V izgnan'i mirnom ostavat'sja,
Vzdykhat' o miloj starine
I sel'skoj muze v tishine
Dushoj bespechnoj predavat'sja.

No i v dali, v kraju chuzhom
Ja budu mysliju vsegdashnej,
Brodit' Trigorskogo krugom,
V lugakh u rechki, [nad]1 kholmom,
V sadu pod sen'ju lip [domashnikh]2.

Kogda zh pomerknet jasnyj den',
[S odna]3 iz glubiny mogil'noj,
[Kak]4 inogda v rodnuju sen'
Letit toskujushchaja ten'
Na milykh brosit' vzor [umil'nyj]5.

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¹ Cui: "pod"
² Cui: "domashnej"
³ Cui: "Odna"
⁴ Cui: "Tak"
⁵ Cui: "umil'noj"

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Authorship

• by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837) [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863 - 1931), "Быт может уж не долго мне", op. 30 no. 1, published 1900 [voice and piano], from Souvenir de Kozatskoé, no. 1, Leipzig, Belaieff [
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• by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Быть может уж не долго мне", op. 57 (Двадцать пять стихотворении Пушкина = Dvadcat' pjat' stikhotvorenii Pushkina (25 Poems of Pushkin)) no. 15. [
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