Tajna (Vel'tman, set by A. Aliabev) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Ja ne skazhu, ja ne priznajus',
V chjom tajna vechnaja moja,
Jejo ja skryt' ot vsekh starajus',
Bojus' doverchivosti ja.

Vas ne zajmet ona, ne tronet,
Kak skuchnoj povesti rasskaz;
Tak pust'-zhe navsegda potonet
Ona v dushe mojej ot vas.

Ljublju... nevol'nyj zvuk, sluchajnoj...
Ne ver'te... nebo ja molju
Navek ostavit' grustnoj tajnoj:
Kogo ja plamenno ljublju!

Note: the italics attempt to reconstruct what was done typographically to express the narrator's divulged secret Ja vas ljublju (I love you).

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Authorship

Aleksandr Fomich Vel'tman (1800-1870)

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

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787-1851)

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