U kamina (Garin, set by P. Batorin, Y. Prigozhy) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Ty sidish' [molchalivo]¹ i smotrish' s toskoj,
Kak pechal'no kamin dogorajet,
[Kak v njom jarkoe plamja to]² vspykhnet poroj,
To bessil'no opjat' ugasajet.

Ty grustish' vsjo o chjom? Ne o proshlykh li dnjakh,
Polnykh negi, ljubvi i priveta?
Tak chego zhe ty ishchesh' v sgorevshikh ugljakh?
O [sebe]³ ne najti v nikh otveta.

Podozhdi jeshchjo mig, i ne budet ognej,
Chto tebja tak laskali i greli,
I ostanetsja gruda lish' chernykh uglej,
Chto sejchas dogoret' ne uspeli.

O! pover', ved' ljubov' - `eto tot zhe kamin,
Gde sgorajut vse luchshie grjozy.
A pogasnet ljubov' - v serdce kholod odin,
Vperedi zhe - stradan'ja i sljozy.

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¹ Batorin: "odinoko"
² Batorin: "I kak plamja to v njom tak i"
³ Batorin: "tebe"

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Authorship

(Garfield) Sergey Aleksandrovich Garin (1873-1927)

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Pyotr Ivanovich Batorin

Yakov F. Prigozhy (1840-1920)

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