Ya ne skazhu, ya ne priznayus`,
V chyom tajna vechnaya moya,
Eyo ya skry't` ot vsex starayus`,
Boyus` doverchivosti ya.

Vas ne zajmet ona, ne tronet,
Kak skuchnoj povesti rasskaz;
Tak pust`-zhe navsegda potonet
Ona v dushe moej ot vas.

Lyublyu... nevol`ny'j zvuk, sluchajnoj...
Ne ver`te... nebo ya molyu
Navek ostavit` grustnoj tajnoj:
Kogo ya plamenno lyublyu!

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]

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Word count: 57