Коль любить, так без рассудку,
Коль грозить, так не на шутку,
Коль ругнуть, так сгоряча,
Коль рубнуть, так уж с плеча!
Коли спорить, так уж смело,
Коль карать, так уж за дело,
Коль простить, так всей душой,
Коли пир, так пир горой!
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ivan Avgustovich Borodin , "Коль любить, так без рассудку" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Nikolayevich Cherepnin (1873 - 1945), "Коль любить, так без рассудку" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Коль любить, так без разсудку", op. 67 (Восемьнадцать стихотворении А.К. Толстого = Vosem'nadcat' stikhotvorenii A. K. Tolstogo (18 Poems of A. K. Tolstoy)) no. 7, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Moscow, P. Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Коль любить", op. 28 (Одиннадцать романсов (Odinnadcat' romansov) = Eleven Romances) no. 1 (1906) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Yury Nikolayevich Golitsyn (1823 - 1872), "Коль любить, так без рассудку" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Коль любить, так без рассудку" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Anton Yulyevich Simon (1850 - 1916), "Коль любить", op. 45 (Девять романсов) no. 9 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Feopemptovich Solovyov (1846 - 1916), "Коль любить, так без рассудку" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergey Vladimirovich Yuferov (1865 - 1927), "Коль любить, так без рассудку" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov (1872 - 1964), "Коль любить, так без рассудку", op. 17 (Шесть романсов) no. 6 (1905) [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karolina Karlovna Pavlova (1807 - 1893) ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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- ENG English (Jennifer Gliere) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 42
If you love, then do it madly,
if you threaten, then do it seriously,
if you curse, then do it angrily,
if you chop, then do it straight from the shoulder!
If you argue, then do it boldly,
if you punish, then do it fairly,
if you forgive, then do it generously,
and if there’s a feast, then make it lavish!