Ja videl smert' (Pushkin, set by A. Arensky) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Ja videl smert'; ona v molchan'i sela
U mirnogo porogu moego;
Ja videl grob; otkrylas' dver' ego;
             Dusha, pomerknuv, okhladela...
             Pokinu skoro ja druzej,
             I zhizni gorestnoj moej
             Nikto sledov uzh ne primetit;
             Poslednij vzor moikh ochej
             Lucha bessmertija ne vstretit,
I pogasajushchij svetil'nik junykh dnej
        Nichtozhestva spokojnyj mrak osvetit.

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Prosti, pechal'nyj mir, gde temnaja stezja
             Nad bezdnoj dlja menja lezhala - 
Gde vera tikhaja menja ne uteshala,
             Gde ja ljubil, gde mne ljubit' nel'zja!

Prosti, svetilo dnja, prosti, nebes zavesa,
Nemaja nochi mgla, dennicy sladkij chas,
Znakomye kholmy, ruch'ja pustynnyj glas,
        Bezmolvie tainstvennogo lesa,
             I vsjo. . . . prosti v poslednij raz.

A ty, kotoraja byla mne v mire bogom,
Predmetom tajnykh slez i gorestej zalogom,
Prosti! minulo vsjo..... Uzh gasnet plamen' moj, 
             Skhozhu ja v khladnuju mogilu,
             I smerti sumrak rokovoj
S muchen'jami ljubvi pokroet zhizn' unylu.

A vy, druz'ja, kogda lishennyj sil,
Edva dysha, v boleznennom boren'i,
Skazhu ja vam: ,,O druga! ja ljubil!...``
I tikhoj dukh umret v iznemozhen'i,
Druz'ja moi, - togda podite k nej:
Skazhite: vzjat on vechnoj t'moju...
I, mozhet byt', ob uchasti moej
Ona vzdokhnet nad urnoj grobovoju.

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Authorship

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861-1906)

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