César Antonovich Cui - Beauty Concealed - текст песни (слова)

Where enwrapp'd in sleep the forest sighs,
 There a mute, untrodden valley lies, 
 Spellbound by the tempest's pow'rs, 
 and lost 'mid dark woods. 
 
 There the ranks of gnarled willows grow, 
 By the margin of a sluggish stream, 
 There the pallid lilies bloom and dream, 
 Where the silent, winding waters flow. 
 
 There the stunted silver birches stand, 
 Scatter'd o'er the wild and marshy heath, 
 Yonder, shutting in the lonely land, 
 spreads a forest, dark and sad as death, 
 
 But such spots bear no message to the soul that's lost in care; 
 Only Nature's true adept may guess 
 All their strange and secret loveliness, 
 

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