Aleko
 Ili pod sen`yu dy'mnoj kushhi
 Czy'gana dikogo rasskaz?

[...]1

Solo (Zemfira)
 Stary'j muzh, grozny'j muzh, 
 Rezh` menya, zhgi menya:
 YA tverda; ne boyus` 
 [Ni nozha, ni ognya]2.
 Nenavizhu tebya,
 Prezirayu tebya;
 YA drugogo lyublyu,
 Umirayu lyubya.

Aleko
 Molchi. Mne pen`e nadoelo,
 YA dikix pesen ne lyublyu.

Zemfira
 Ne lyubish`? Mne kakoe delo?
 YA pesnyu dlya sebya poyu.

Solo (Zemfira)
 [Rezh` menya, zhgi menya
 Ne skazhu nichego;
 Stary'j muzh, grozny'j muzh, 
 Ne uznaesh` ego.]3 
 On svezhee vesny', 
 Zharche letnego dnya;
 Kak on molod i smel! 
 Kak on lyubit menya!
 [Kak laskala ego
 YA v nochnoj tishine!
 Kak smeyalis` togda
 My' tvoej sedine!]4

Aleko
 Molchi, Zemfira! ya dovolen...

Zemfira
 Tak ponyal pesnyu ty' moyu?

Aleko
 Zemfira!

Zemfira
 Ty' serdit`sya volen,
 YA pesnyu pro tebya poyu.

Solo
 Stary'j muzh, grozny'j muzh, 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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