Текст песни Виталий Слезинский - Эдгар По - Сон во сне

Let it stay with you
Kiss my farewell!
I'm leaving you
And now I will tell you:
You were not mistaken in one thing, -
My life was only a dream.
But the dream that lived in sleep
Whether during the day or at night left,
Is it like a vision, like a light,
What is it to me - she's gone.
Everything that I see, I think,
Everything is only a dream within a dream.

I'm standing on the shore
I watch the storm with my eyes.
And I hold in my hands
A handful of grains of gold.
How they caress the eyes!
How few of them! How they slide
Everything - between the fingers - down to the wave,
To the depths - on woe to me!
How can I delay their run,
How to squeeze your hands tighter?
Will at least one survive
Or will the wave take everything?
Or what is visible to me
Is everything just a dream within a dream?

(Translated by K. Balmont)