by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865 - 1941)
Starost`
Language: Russian (Русский)
Chem bol`she ya zhivu - tem glubzhe tajna zhizni, Tem prizrachnee mir, strashnej sebe ya sam, Tem bol`she ya stremlyus` k pokinutoj otchizne, K moim bezmolvny'm nebesam. Chem bol`she ya zhivu - tem skorb` moya sil`nee, I ne otzy'vchivej na golos dol`nix bur`, I smert` moej dushi vse blizhe i yasnee, Kak vechnaya lazur`. Mne yunosti ne zhal`: prekrasnej solncza maya, Moj zolotoj sentyabr`, tvoj blesk i tishina. YA ne boyus` tebya, pridi ko mne, svyataya, O, Starost`, luchshaya vesna! Toboj obveyanny'j, ya snova budu molod, Pod svetly'm ineem bezgreshnoj sediny', Kak tol`ko ukrotit vo mne tvoj mudry'j xolod I bol`, i bred, i zhar vesny'!
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- by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865 - 1941) [author's text not yet checked 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 Rudolf Ivanovich Mervolf (1886 - 1942), "Старость" [sung text checked 1 time]
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