| Передо мною стань | Stand before me, dawn-form in the hush, |
| Веди меня | Lead me on, as a river leads the dusk, |
| Передо мною даль | A vastness looms—a silver, beckoning plain, |
| Ты же меня направь | But you, unveil the path through its silent haze. |
| Передо мною стань | Stand before me, threshold of my night, |
| Веди меня | Guide me forward, lantern in the blight, |
| Веди меня | Guide me, as wind unspools the autumn leaves, |
| Ты же меня направь | Yet you—be compass where my spirit grieves. |
| Люби меня | Love me: as rain dissolves a thirsty land, |
| Люби меня | Love me: like flame that leans to a waiting hand, |
| (Лю-у-би-и) | (Love—echoed deep as chimes in winter air), |
| Люби меня | Love me—till yearning splits the world bare, |
| Люби меня | Love me, as shadow clings to a fleeing sun, |
| (Лю-у-би-и) | (Love—drawn through the marrow, never done), |
| (Люби меня) | (Love me)—as roots embrace the secret earth, |
| Люби меня | Love me, as longing shapes my birth, |
| Люби меня | Love me, as tide recedes to the moon’s decree, |
| (Лю-у-би-и) | (Love—trembles, lingers, endlessly), |
| Люби меня | Love me, as nightfall hushes the racing sea, |
| Люби меня | Love me, as dream calls the sleeper to be, |
| (Лю-у-би-и) | (Love—whispered in a hush of leaves), |
| Ты же меня направь | But you—be the hand that guides me through these eves, |
| Ты же меня направь | But you—be north in the welter of these fears, |
| Ты же меня направь | But you—be dawn where the threshold appears, |
| Ты же меня направь | But you—be the path through my gathering years |