Текст песни Георгий Виноградов, Иван Петров - Элегия

ELEGY

When, soul, did you ask
To die or love
When desires and dreams
They crowded for you to live,
When I still did not drink tears
From the cup of being, -
Why then, in a wreath of roses,
I didn’t leave for the shadows!

Why did you draw like that
In my memory
Single youth sign,
You, songs of past days!
I bitterly dale and forests
And the sweet look forgot
Why are your voices
I kept my hearing!

Do not bring back happiness to me
Though it breathes in you!
With him in flashing antiquity
I said goodbye a long time.
Don’t break it, I pray
You sleep my soul
And the words of the terrible "love"
Do not repeat to her!