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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Dlya chego ya ne rodilsya
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Dlya chego ya ne rodilsya
E`toj sineyu volnoj?
Kak by' shumno ya katilsya
Pod serebryanoj lunoj,
O, kak strastno ya lobzal by'
Zolotisty'j moj pesok,
Kak nadmenno preziral by'
Nedoverchivy'j chelnok;
Vsyo, chem tak gordyatsya lyudi,
Moj nabeg by' razrushal;
I k moej studenoj grudi
YA b stradal`cev prizhimal;
Ne strashilsya b muki ada,
Raem ne by'l by' prel`shhen;
Bespokojstvo i proxlada
By'li b vechny'j moj zakon;
Ne iskal by' ya zabven`ya
V dal`nem severnom krayu;
By'l by' volen ot rozhden`ya
Zhit` i konchit` zhizn` moyu!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title, written 1832 [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 Georgy Mikhailovich Rimsky-Korsakov (1901 - 1965), "Для чего я не родился" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Yury Petrovich Suldin (b. 1987), "Для чего я не родился" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-25
Line count: 20
Word count: 86

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