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by Aleksandr Fomich Vel'tman (1800 - 1870)

Тайна
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Я не скажу, я не признаюсь,
В чём тайна вечная моя,
Её я скрыть от всех стараюсь,
Боюсь доверчивости я.

Вас не займет она, не тронет,
Как скучной повести рассказ;
Так пусть-же навсегда потонет
Она в душе моей от вас.

Люблю... невольный звук, случайной...
Не верьте... небо я молю
Навек оставить грустной тайной:
Кого я пламенно люблю!

Note: the italics attempt to reconstruct what was done typographically to express the narrator's divulged secret Ja vas ljublju (I love you).

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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksandr Fomich Vel'tman (1800 - 1870) [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 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787 - 1851), "Тайна", 1833 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Vsevolod Nikolayevich Vsevolozhsky (1869 - 1904), "Тайна" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 59

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