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by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

Tuman vstayot na dne stremnin
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Tuman vstayot na dne stremnin,
Sredi polunochnoj proxlady'
Sil`nee paxnet dikij tmin,
Gremyat sly'shnee vodopady'.
Kak oslepitel`na luna!
Kak gor ochercheny' vershiny'!
V srebristom sumrake vidna
Vnizu Bajdarskaya dolina.
Nad nami svetyat nebesa,
Cherneet bezdna pered nami,
Drozhit blestyashhaya rosa
Na list`yax krupny'mi slezami…

Dushe legko. Ne sly'shu ya
Okov zemnogo by'tiya,
Net mesta straxu, ni nadezhde,—
Chto budet vpred`, chto by'lo prezhde —
Mne vsyo ravno — i chto menya
Vsegda kak cep` k zemle tyanulo,
Ischezlo vsyo s trevogoj dnya,
Vsyo v lunnom bleske potonulo…

Kuda zhe my'sl` unesena?
Chto ej tak viditsya dremlivo?
Ne sred` volshebnogo li sna
My' edem vmeste vdol` obry'va?
Ty' l` e`to, robosti polna,
Ko mne sklonilas` molchalivo?
Uzhel` ya vizhu ne vo sne,
Kak zvyozdy' bleshhut v vy'shine,
Kak kon` stupaet ostorozhno,
Kak dy'shit grud` tvoya trevozhno?
Il` pri obmanchivoj lune
Menya lish` draznit prizrak lozhny'j
I e`to son? O, esli b mne
Prosnut`sya by'lo nevozmozhno!

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Confirmed with А. К. Толстой, Сочинения : в 2 т., М.: Художественная литература, 1981. — Т. 1. Стихотворения.


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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), no title, appears in Крымские очерки (Krymskije ocherki), no. 6 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-01
Line count: 34
Word count: 154

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