by Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (1783 - 1852)
Translation Singable translation by Constance Bache (1846 - 1903)

Листок
Language: Russian (Русский) 
От дружной ветки отлученный,
Скажи, листок уединенный,
Куда летишь?.. ,,Не знаю сам;
Гроза разбила дуб родимый;
С тех пор по долам, по горам
По воле случая носимый,
Стремлюсь, куда велит мне рок,
Куда на свете все стремится,
Куда и лист лавровый мчится,
И легкий розовый листок.``

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The leaflet
Language: English  after the Russian (Русский) 
From shelt'ring bough by rough wind shaken,
Leaflet, say, where dost go, forsaken?
oh where? oh where? "I do not know
The stormblast has my good oak shatter'd,
By breath of chance toss'd to and fro,
I and my dear ones all are scatter'd;
I go whereever fate may will,
Whereever all things here are driven,
Where all the laurel crowns are riven,
And where the roseleaf lingers still."

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