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by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893)

Проложен жизни путь бесплодными степями
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Проложен жизни путь бесплодными степями,
И глушь, и мрак… ни хаты, ни куста…
Спит сердце; скованы цепями
И разум, и уста,
И даль пред нами
Пуста.

И вдруг покажется не так тяжка дорога,
Захочется и петь, и мыслить вновь.
На небе звезд горит так много,
Так бурно льется кровь…
Мечты, тревога,
Любовь!

О, где же те мечты? Где радости, печали,
Светившие нам ярко столько лет?
От их огней в туманной дали
Чуть виден слабый свет…
И те пропали…
Их нет.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893), no title, written 1888 [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 Aleksandr Ippolitovich Mann (1864 - 1922), "Проложен жизни путь бесплодными степями" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Maximilian Oseyevich Steinberg (1883 - 1946), "Проложен жизни путь бесплодными степями..." [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-13
Line count: 18
Word count: 80

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