Itak, poet unylyj moj!
Tot skoro chas primchitsya,
Kogda tebe s rodnoj stranoj,
S druz’yami dolzhno razluchit’sya;
Letet’ tuda, kuda vedet
Ruka sudeb neumolimyh;
Tuda, gde strashnyj gor hrebet,
Sredi stepej neobozrimyh,
CHelo skryvaya v oblakah,
Stoit snegami uvenchannyj;
Gde lyutaya zima na groznyh vysotah
Postavila svoi chertogi l’dyany;
Tuda, tuda, poet – drug moj!
Tam skaly dikie i propasti uzhasny,
I mrak dubrav chuzhoj,
Uslyshat liry glas prekrasnyj!
Tuda i muzy priletyat,
V Sibir’, v zhilische hlada,
Poet! bogin’ ne ustrashat
Ni dal’, ni mraz, ni l’dov gromada:
Oni, ostavivshi Parnas,
V tvoyu smirennuyu obitel’
Pridut vnimat’ tvoj mirnyj glas,
Lyubimets ih i ih lyubitel’!
Togda ty liry zolotoj
Udarish’ v zvonki struny
I s nih blestyascheyu struej
Pol’etsya zvuk perunnyj!
Togda ty budet’ vspominat’
O rodine svoej, o teh mestah svyaschennyh,
Gde dnej tvoih ne smeli vozmuschat’
Strastej poryvy raz’yarennyh;
Gde vernyh ty imel druzej,
Kak s nimi vremya protekalo,
Kak zlatostrunnoj ih tvoej
Bryatsan’e liry voshischalo,
Kak s nimi radost’ razdelyal,
Mechty i tyagost’ skuki,
Kak ih pechal’nyj ostavlyal,
Kak prostiral k nim ruki.
CHtoby v poslednij raz obnyat’,
Skazat’ prosti i udalit’sya.
Ah kak priyatno vspominat’
O tom, s chem tyazhko razluchit’sya!
Moj drug! CHto mozhet byt’ milej
Bestsennogo rodnogo kraya?
Tam solntse kazhetsya svetlej,
Tam radostnej vesna zlataya,
Prohladnyj legkij veterok,
Dushistee tsvety, tam holmy zelenee,
Tam sladostnej zhurchit potok,
Tam solovej poet zvuchnee,
Tam vse nas mozhet voshischat’,
Tam vse prekrasno, tam vse milo,
Tam dni, kak molniya, letyat,
Tam net toski unyloj
Tam nashe schastie zhivet,
Tam tol’ko zhizn’yu naslazhdat’sya!
A ty, lyubeznyj, moj poet,
Ty dolzhen s rodinoj rasstat’sya!
Daj ruku! Milyj drug, proschaj!
No tam, v strane toj otdalennoj,
Tvoih druzej ne zabyvaj;
ZHivi nadezhdoj ozarennyj,
CHto nekogda uvidish’ ih,
CHto groznyj rok k tebe smyagchitsya,
I chto blazhenstvo vozvratitsya
I pozlatit tok dnej tvoih!
(Nikolay Mikhailovich Yazykov)
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