Grustno! Ponikli ustalye ruki,
Vzor opečalennyj klonitsja dolu;
Vse dorogoe, bez gneva i muki,
Chočetsja v žertvu otdat' proizvolu!

Grustno… He trogajte serdca bol'nogo,
Mimo idite s učastiem, drugi:
Brosit' mogu ja vam gor'koe slovo
Žestkoju platoj za vaši uslugi.

Dajte mne, ljudi, pobyt' neljudimym,
Dajte unjat'sja nevedomoj boli:
Kamnem toska nalegla nekrušimym…
Ėch, umeret', razrydat'sja by — čto li!

Confirmed with С. А. Андреевский, Стихотворения. 1878-1887, Издание второе. — С.-Петербург: Типография А. С. Суворина. Эртелев пер., д. 13, 1898 p.65

About the title: В первом издании сборника (1886) стихотворение называлось «Тягость»

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Text Authorship:

• by Sergei Arkad'evich Andreyevsky (1847 - 1919), "Тягость", first published 1886 [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 Aleksandr Abramovich Kreyn (1883 - 1951), "Тягость", op. 6 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa) = Four romances) no. 4 (1905), published 1912 [ voice and piano ], М. : Юргенсон [sung text not yet checked]

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