Ljudi spjat; moj drug, pojdëm v tenistvyj sad.
Ljudi spjat, odni liš' zvëzdy k nam gljadjat,
Da i te ne vidjat nas sredi vetvej,
I ne slyšat, slyšit tol'ko solovej...

Da i tot ne slyšit: pesn' ego gromka.
[Razve slyšat]1 tol'ko serdce da ruka.
Slyšit serdce, skol'ko radostej zemli,
Skol'ko sčastija sjuda my prinesli.

Da ruka, uslyša, serdcu govorit,
Čto [čužaja]2 v nej pylaet i drožit,
Čto i ej ot ėtoj droži gorjačo,
Čto k [pleču]3 nevol'no klonitsja plečo...

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¹ Dyubyuk: "Он не слышит. Слышит"
² Dyubyuk: "другая"
³ Dyubyuk: "груди"

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Text Authorship:

• by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), no title, first published 1853 [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 Ivanovich Dyubyuk (1812 - 1897), "Ночная серенада" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "Люди спят" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), "Люди спят", op. 17 (10 Романсов) no. 10, published 1905 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: M.P. Belaieff [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov (1872 - 1964), "Люди спят", subtitle: "Ноттурно", op. 21 no. 3, published [1907] [ vocal duet ], Leipzig, Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]

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• ENG English (Aleksey Berg) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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