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sometimes misattributed to Anton Antonovich Delvig (1798 - 1831) and by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Птичка божия не знает
 (Sung text for setting by A. Varlamov)
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Language: Russian (Русский) 
Птичка божия не знает
Ни заботы, ни труда,
Хлопотливо не свивает
Долговечного гнезда,
В долгу ночь на ветке дремлет;
Солнце красное взойдёт,
Птичка гласу бога внемлет,
Встрепенется и поёт.

За весной, красой природы,
Лето знойное пройдёт -
И туман и непогоды
Осень поздняя несёт:
Людям скучно, людям горе;
Птичка в дальные страны,
В тёплый край, за сине море
Улетает до весны.

Note: this is an excerpt from a much longer poem titled "Цыганы" [ru.wikisource.org, external website]

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Composition:

    Set to music by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801 - 1848), "Птичка божия не знает" [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • sometimes misattributed to Anton Antonovich Delvig (1798 - 1831)
  • by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), appears in Цыганы (Cygany), 1824, first published 1827

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 60

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