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by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925)

Czvety' mne govoryat ‑‑ proshhaj
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Czvety' mne govoryat -- proshhaj,
Golovkami sklonyayas` nizhe,
Chto ya naveki ne uvizhu
Ee liczo i otchij kraj.

Lyubimaya, nu chto zh! Nu chto zh!
YA videl ix i videl zemlyu,
I e`tu grobovuyu drozh`
Kak lasku novuyu priemlyu.

I potomu, chto ya postig
Vsyu zhizn`, projdya s uly'bkoj mimo,—
YA govoryu na kazhdy'j mig,
Chto vse na svete povtorimo.

Ne vse l` ravno — pridet drugoj,
Pechal` ushedshego ne sglozhet,
Ostavlennoj i dorogoj
Prishedshij luchshe pesnyu slozhit.

I, pesne vnemlya v tishine,
Lyubimaya s drugim lyubimy'm,
By't` mozhet, vspomnit obo mne
Kak o czvetke nepovtorimom.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925), first published 1925 [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 Vasilyevich Podbolotov (b. 1945) and by V. Solomin , "Цветы мне говорят -- прощай" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-08-22
Line count: 20
Word count: 95

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