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by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865 - 1941)

Starost'
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Chem bol'she ja zhivu - tem glubzhe tajna zhizni,
Tem prizrachneje mir, strashnej sebe ja sam,
Tem bol'she ja stremljus' k pokinutoj otchizne,
K moim bezmolvnym nebesam.

Chem bol'she ja zhivu - tem skorb' moja sil'neje,
I ne otzyvchivej na golos dol'nikh bur',
I smert' mojej dushi vse blizhe i jasneje,
Kak vechnaja lazur'.

Mne junosti ne zhal': prekrasnej solnca maja,
Moj zolotoj sentjabr', tvoj blesk i tishina.
Ja ne bojus' tebja, pridi ko mne, svjataja,
O, Starost', luchshaja vesna!

Toboj obvejannyj, ja snova budu molod,
Pod svetlym inejem bezgreshnoj sediny,
Kak tol'ko ukrotit vo mne tvoj mudryj kholod
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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