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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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Text Authorship:

  • 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]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-15
Line count: 16
Word count: 104

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