by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)
Tebe, Kavkaz, surovyj car' zemli
Language: Russian (Русский)
Tebe, Kavkaz, surovyj car' zemli, Ja posvjashchaju snova stikh nebrezhnyj. Kak syna ty jego blagoslovi I oseni vershinoj belosnezhnoj; Ot junykh let k tebe mechty moi Prikovany sud'boju neizbezhnoj, Na severe — v strane tebe chuzhoj Ja serdcem tvoj — vsegda i vsjudu tvoj. Jeshche rebenkom, robkimi shagami Vzbiralsja ja na gordye skaly, Uvitye tumannymi chalmami, Kak golovy poklonnikov allỳ. Tam veter mashet vol'nymi krylami, Tam nochevat' sletajutsja orly, Ja v gosti k nim letal mechtoj poslushnoj I serdcem byl — tovarishch ikh vozdushnyj. S tekh por proshlo tjazhelykh mnogo let, I vnov' menja mezh skal svoikh ty vstretil. Kak nekogda rebenku, tvoj privet Izgnanniku byl radosten i svetel. On prolil v grud' moju zabven'e bed, I druzhno ja na druzhnij zov otvetil; I nyne zdes', v polunochnom kraju, Vsjo o tebe mechtaju i poju.
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- 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 Viktor Arkadyevich Bely (1904 - 1989), "Тебе, Кавказ, суровый царь земли" [sung text not yet checked]
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