Songs

Ne plach’, moi drug, o schast’i otletevshem,
Do not weep, my friend, for vanished happiness,
Ego, uvy, slezami ne vernut’:
As tears, alas, cannot bring it back:
Ono ognyam podobno dogorevshim,
It is like those fires, long gone out,
Tebya na mig, na kratkii mig sovregshim…
That warmed you for just a brief moment…
Prosti! Zabud’ o tom, kak schastie nedavno
Forgive me! Forget how happiness so recently
Tebya svoim kosnulosya luchom,
Touched you with its rays,
I vmesto mgly kholodnoi i tumanoi,
And instead of cold and foggy gloom,
Poveyalo vesnoi blagoukhannoi,
There came the scent of fragrant spring,
Pakhnulo svetom i teplom!
An atmosphere of light and warmth!
Zabud’, kakim stradan’em i toskoyu
Forget your tormented breast,
Polna teper‘ izmuchennaya grud‘,
So full of suffering and sadness,
Kakoi prishlos‘ platit‘ tebe tsenoyu
Forget the price which you have had to pay
Za schat’ya mig, u zhizni vzyatoi s boyu.
For a moment of happiness, cruelly stolen from life.