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Уснуть бы мне навек в траве, как в колыбели, как я ребёнком спал в те солнечные дни, когда в лучах полуденных звенели веселых жаворонков трели и пели мне они: ,,Усни, усни, усни.`` И крылья пестрых мух с причудливой окраской на венчиках цветов дрожали, как огни, и шум дерев казался чудной сказкой; мой сон лелея, с тихой лаской баюкали они: ,,Усни, усни, усни.`` И убегая вдаль, как волны золотые, давали мне приют в задумчивой тени, под кущей верб, поля мои, поля родные; склонив колосья наливные, шептали мне они: ,,Усни, усни, усни.``
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- by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865 - 1941) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- by Aleksey Konstantinovich Dreier (b. 1857), "Усни" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolf Ivanovich Mervolf (1886 - 1942), "Усни" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Усни", op. 57 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 4 (1884), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Jennifer Gliere) , "Death", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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I would fall asleep in the grass forever, as I slept a cradle as a babe, How I slept on those sunny days, When in the midday sun Cheerful larks’ trills sang out to me: "Sleep, sleep, sleep!" And the variegated wings of flies Trembled like tiny lights on the flowers, And the rustle of the trees seemed a wonderful fairy tale; The trees nursed me tenderly and sang me a lullaby: "Sleep, sleep, sleep!" My native fields, Stretched far and wide like golden waves, Willows sheltered me in shadow, And bowing, ripe ears of corn whispered to me: "Sleep, sleep, sleep!"
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- a text in Russian (Русский) by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865 - 1941)
This text was added to the website: 2017-08-03
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Word count: 102