Aleko
 Ili pod sen'ju dymnoj kušči
 Cygana dikogo rasskaz?

[...]1

Solo (Zemfira)
 Staryj muž, groznyj muž, 
 Rež' menja, žgi menja:
 JA tverda; ne bojus' 
 [Ni noža, ni ognja]2.
 Nenavižu tebja,
 Preziraju tebja;
 JA drugogo ljublju,
 Umiraju ljubja.

Aleko
 Molči. Mne pen'e nadoelo,
 JA dikich pesen ne ljublju.

Zemfira
 Ne ljubiš'? Mne kakoe delo?
 JA pesnju dlja sebja poju.

Solo (Zemfira)
 [Rež' menja, žgi menja
 Ne skažu ničego;
 Staryj muž, groznyj muž, 
 Ne uznaeš' ego.]3 
 On svežee vesny, 
 Žarče letnego dnja;
 Kak on molod i smel! 
 Kak on ljubit menja!
 [Kak laskala ego
 JA v nočnoj tišine!
 Kak smejalis' togda
 My tvoej sedine!]4

Aleko
 Molči, Zemfira! ja dovolen...

Zemfira
 Tak ponjal pesnju ty moju?

Aleko
 Zemfira!

Zemfira
 Ty serdit'sja volen,
 JA pesnju pro tebja poju.

Solo
 Staryj muž, groznyj muž, itd...

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

¹ Tchaikovsky: "ни огня, ни меча" ("ni ognja, ni mecha")
² Tchaikovsky: "Старый муж, грозный муж,/ Режь меня, жги меня:/ Я тверда, не боюсь/ Ни огня, ни меча." ("Staryj muzh, groznyj muzh,/ Rezh' menja, zhgi menja:/ Ja tverda, ne bojus'/ Ni ognja, ni mecha."
³ omitted by Tchaikovsky.

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Text Authorship:

• by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), no title, appears in Цыганы (Cygany)

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

• by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Песнь Земфиры", note: Aleko and Zemfira's words are spoken not sung [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev, Konstantin Mikhailovich Galkovsky, Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, Aleksandr Abramovich Kreyn, Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov, Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein, Feofil Matveyevich Tolstoy, Vasily Vasilyevich Vargin, Aleksei Nikolayevich Verstovsky, Pauline Viardot-García, Mikhail Yur'yevich Viel'gorsky, Sofya Aleksandrovna Zybina.

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