Kol' ljubit', tak bez rassudku

Kol' ljubit', tak bez rassudku,
Kol' grozit', tak ne na shutku,
Kol' rugnut', tak sgorjacha,
Kol' rubnut', tak uzh s plecha!

Koli sporit', tak uzh smelo,
Kol' karat', tak uzh za delo,
Kol' prostit', tak vsej dushoj,
Koli pir, tak pir goroj!

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by Count Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875) , no title, published 1850/1

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

by I. A. Borodin , "Kol' ljubit', tak bez rassudku"
by Nikolai Nikolayevich Cherepnin (1873-1945) , "Kol' ljubit', tak bez rassudku"
by Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875-1956) , "Kol' ljubit', tak bez rassudku", op. 28 no. 1 (1906).
by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829-1894) , "Kol' ljubit', tak bez rassudku"
by Nikolay F. Solovyov (1846-1916) , "Kol' ljubit', tak bez rassudku"
by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotarev (1872-1964) , "Kol' ljubit', tak bez rassudku"

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