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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Unylyj kolokola zvon
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Unylyj kolokola zvon
V vechernij chas moj slukh nevol'no potrjasajet,
Obmanutoj dushe mojej napominajet
         I vechnost' i nadezhdu on.
    I jesli veter, putnik odinokoj,
    Vdrug po trave kladbíshcha probezhit,
    On serdca mojego ne kholodit:
         Chto v njom zhivet, to v njom gluboko.
    Ja chuvstvuju — sud'ba ne umertvit
    Vo mne vozrosshij dejatel'nyj genij;
    No chto jego na svete sokhranit
Ot khitroj klevety, ot skuchnykh naslazhdenij,
         Ot istoshchitel'nykh strastej,
    Ot jazyka laskatelej razvratnykh
         I ot zhelanij, neponjatnykh
         Umam posredstvennykh ljudej?
         Bez pishchi dolzhen jarkij plamen'
         Pogasnut' na skale syroj:
         Kholodnyj slushatel' jest' kamen',
    Poprobuj raz, poprobuj i otkroj
Jemu istochniki serdechnogo blazhenstva,
On stanet tolkovat', chto dolzhno oshchutit';
         V prostom ne vidja sovershenstva,
    On ne privyk prekrasnoje cenit',
Kak tot, kto v grud' vtesnit' zhelal by vsju prirodu
Kto silitsja kupit' stradanijem svoim
    I gordoju pobedoj nad zemnym
Bozhestvennoj dushi bezbrezhnuju svobodu.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title, written 1830/1831 [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 Yury Sergeyevich Biryukov (1908 - 1976), "Унылый колокола звон" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-05-05
Line count: 28
Word count: 141

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