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by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

Вздымаются волны
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Вздымаются волны, как горы,
и к твёрди возносятся звездной,
и с ужасом падают взоры
в мгновенно [разрытые]1 бездны.

Подобная страсти, не знает
средины тревожная сила,
то к небу, то в пропасть бросает
ладью без весла и кормила.

Не верь же, ко звездам взлетая,
высокой избранника доле,
не верь, в глубину ниспадая,
что звезд не увидишь ты боле!

[Стихии безбрежной, бездонной, 
Уймется волненье, и вскоре
В свой уровень вступит законный...]2
души успокоенной море.

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•   N. Rimsky-Korsakov 

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1 Rimsky-Korsakov: "раскрытые" ("raskrytyje")
2 Rimsky-Korsakov: "В стихии безбрежной наступит / волненью затишье, и вскоре / в обычный свой уровень вступит" ("V stikhii bezbrezhnoj nastupit / volnen'ju zatish'je, i vskore / v obychnyj svoj uroven' vstupit")

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  • by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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

  • by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Вздымаются волны", op. 46 no. 5 (1897), from У моря (U morja), no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 72

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