Songs

V tishi i mrake tainstvennoy nochi
In the silence and darkness of the mysterious night
Ya vizhu blesk privetnyi i miloi,
I see the glimmer of something dear and friendly,
I v zvyozdnom nebe znakomye ochi
And in the starlit night, familiar eyes
Goryat v stepi nad zabytoi mogiloi.
Burn in the steppe above a forgotten grave.

Trava poblekla, pustynya ugryuma,
The grass has grown pale, the wilderness is forlorn,
I son sirotliv odinokoi grobnitsy,
And the sleep of the solidary tomb is lonely,
I tol’ko v nebe, kak vechnaya duma,
And only in the heavens, like an eternal thought,
Sverkayut zvyozd zolotye resnitsy.
Do the golden lashes of the stars twinkle.

I snitsya mne, chto ty vstala iz groba
And in my dreams you rise from the grave,
Takoi zhe, kakoi ty s zemli otletela,
No different from when you flew from the earth,
I snitsya, snitsya: my molody oba,
And I dream, I dream that are both young,
I ty vzglyanula, kak prezhde glyadela.
And you glanced at me, as you did back then.