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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Kak luch zari, kak rozy' Lelya
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Kak luch zari, kak rozy' Lelya,
Prekrasen czvet ee lanit;
Kak u madony' Rafae`lya
Ee molchan`e govorit.
S lyud`mi gorda, sud`be pokorna,
Ne otkrovenna, ne pritvorna,
Narochno, mnilosya, ona
By'la dlya schast`ya sozdana.
No svet chego ne unichtozhit?
Chto blagorodnoe sneset,
Kakuyu dushu ne sozhmet,
Ch`e samolyub`e ne umnozhit?
I ch`ix ne obol`stit ochej
Naryadnoj maskoyu svoej?

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Text Authorship:

  • by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title [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 Nikolay Yakovlevich Afanasyev (1821 - 1898), "Как луч зари" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-05-03
Line count: 14
Word count: 57

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