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by Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov (1869 - 1941), as Скиталец (Skitalec)

Ручей
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Серебристый ручей
Меж лугов и полей,
Я беспечно бежал
И на солнце играл.

Был свободен мой путь
Под сиянием дня,
Но сдавили мне грудь
И поймали меня.

В золотую волну
Не глядится трава:
За плотиной, в плену
Я верчу жернова.

И дрожит целый дом
От работы моей...
Раз метать бы кругом 
Ухишренья людей!

Словно лев я рычу,
Золны в слёзы дроблю!
Я свободы хочу,
Я свободу люблю!

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Note on Transliterations

Text Authorship:

  • by Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov (1869 - 1941), as Скиталец (Skitalec) [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 Georgy Petrovich Bazilevsky (b. 1887), "Ручей" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Ручей", op. 44 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa) = Four romances) no. 3 (1908) [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 67

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