You'll soon forget me

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by Yulya Valeryanovna Zhadovskaya (1824 - 1883)

Translation © by Sergey Rybin

Ты скоро меня позабудешь

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Ты скоро меня позабудешь,
но я не забуду тебя;
ты в жизни разлюбишь, полюбишь,
а я никого никогда!

Ты новые лица увидишь
и новых друзей изберешь;
ты новые чувства узнаешь
и, может быть, счастье найдёшь!

Я тихо и грустно свершаю
без радостей, жизненный путь;
и как я люблю и страдаю,
узнает могила одна!

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Text Authorship:

by Yulya Valeryanovna Zhadovskaya (1824 - 1883), no title, first published 1845 [author's text not yet checked 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 Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869), "Ты скоро меня позабудешь" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk (1812 - 1897), "Ты скоро меня позабудешь" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "Ты скоро меня позабудешь", 1847 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801 - 1848), "Ты скоро меня позабудешь", 1844 [ vocal duet with piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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You'll soon forget me

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

You'll soon forget me,
But I will not forget you;
In life you'll cease to love and fall in love again,
But me – never!

You'll see new faces,
You'll choose new friends,
You'll experience new feelings,
And maybe - find happiness!

With resignation, and quietly,
I will make my joyless life's journey,
And only the grave will know
How I love and suffer!

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Yulya Valeryanovna Zhadovskaya (1824 - 1883), no title, first published 1845
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This text was added to the website: 2020-09-16
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