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Если встречусь с тобой Иль увижу тебя, Что за трепет, за огонь Разольётся в [груди]1. Если взглянешь, душа, -- Я горю и дрожу, И бесчувствен и нём Пред тобою стою! Если молвишь мне что, Я на речи твои, На приветы твои, Что сказать, не сыщу. А лобзаньям твоим, А восторгам живым На земле, у людей, Выраженья им нет! Дева-радость души, [Это жизнь - мы живём!]2 Не хочу я другой Жизни в жизни моей!
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with А. В. Кольцов, Полное собрание стихотворений, Ленинград, Советский писатель, 1958.
1 Dyubyuk, Glinka: "душе" ("dushe")2 Glinka: "Эту жизнь мы живём" ("`Etu zhizn' my zhivjom.")
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- by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842), "Песня", 1827, first published 1839 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Aleksei Vladimirovich Abutkov (1875 - 1945), "Если встречусь с тобой", op. 12 (10 Писен) no. 1 [ voice and piano ], Москва (Moscow), Советвенность Издателя `Симфония' [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk (1812 - 1897), "Если встречусь с тобой" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "Если встречусь с тобой", 1839 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Johann Winkler) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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When I shall meet you or when I shall see you - what a trembling, what a fire will pour forth into my breast! When you look at me, darling, I burn and tremble, and numb and dumb I stand before you. When you talk to me, to your words and to your greetings I don't find I reply. But for your kisses, for their lively blisses in the world, among men, there is no expression. Lassie, joy of my heart, that's life - we live! I don't want another life in my life!
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- a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842), "Песня", 1827, first published 1839
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