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by Sergey Aleksandrovich Kasatkin (1860 - 1920)

Ya ne vernus`
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Ya ne vernus`, dusha drozhit ot boli,
YA strasti prizrakom, pover`, ne obmanus`...
Dostojny'm by't` mne xvatit sily' voli,
Ty' tak i znaj, ya ne vernus`.

V chuzhom krayu, ko vsem strastyam xolodny'j,
Stradal`cem dni skorej vlachit` reshus`.
Okovy' proch`, xochu ya by't` svobodny'm.
O, ne zovi, ya ne vernus`.

Ne posy'laj svoix mne pisem mily'x,
YA e`tix strok lyubvi, lukavy'x strok boyus`,
Ne obeshhaj, chego ty' dat` ne v silax,
Da-da, moj drug, ya ne vernus`.

Ved` ya ushyol, tebya ne proklinaya,
A sdelat` zla tebe ne soglashus`.
Pokoya zhdyot dusha moya bol`naya.
O, poshhadi... YA ne vernus`.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Sergey Aleksandrovich Kasatkin (1860 - 1920) [author's text not yet checked 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 Georgy Nikolayevich Dudkevich (1897 - 1979), "Я не вернусь" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Boris Alekseyevch Prozorovsky (1891 - 1937), "Я не вернусь" [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 99

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