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by Sergey Aleksandrovich Kasatkin (1860 - 1920)

Ja ne vernus'
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Ja ne vernus', dusha drozhit ot boli,
Ja strasti prizrakom, pover', ne obmanus'...
Dostojnym byt' mne khvatit sily voli,
Ty tak i znaj, ja ne vernus'.

V chuzhom kraju, ko vsem strastjam kholodnyj,
Stradal'cem dni skorej vlachit' reshus'.
Okovy proch', khochu ja byt' svobodnym.
O, ne zovi, ja ne vernus'.

Ne posylaj svoikh mne pisem milykh,
Ja `etikh strok ljubvi, lukavykh strok bojus',
Ne obeshchaj, chego ty dat' ne v silakh,
Da-da, moj drug, ja ne vernus'.

Ved' ja ushjol, tebja ne proklinaja,
A sdelat' zla tebe ne soglashus'.
Pokoja zhdjot dusha moja bol'naja.
O, poshchadi... Ja 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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