Ozero dyshit tjoplym tumanom...
On muten i nezhen, kak sladkij obman.
Boretsja nebo s zemnym obmanom:
Luna, ves' do dna, prorezajet tuman.

Ja, kak i ljudi, dyshu tumanom.
Mne [blizok, mne sladok]1 ujutnyj obman.
Tol'ko dusha ne zhivjot obmanom --
Ona, kak luna, pronicajet tuman.

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Confirmed with Гиппиус З. Н., Собрание стихов. 1889–1903, М.: Скорпион, 1903.

¹ Myaskovsky: "близок и сладок"

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Text Authorship:

• by Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869 - 1945), written 1902, first published 1903 [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 Karina Yuryevna Makhanko , "Луна и туман" [ voice and piano ], from Три вальса [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (1881 - 1950), "Луна и Туман", op. 4 no. 13 (1903-1913), published 1914 [ voice and piano ], from На грани, 18 романсов на слова З. Гиппиус (Na grani) = On the Border, no. 13, Moscow: P. Jurgenson [sung text checked 1 time]

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• CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "月与雾", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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