LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY

The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle:--
Why not I with thine?

See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:--
What are all those kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?

(Percy Bysshe Shelley)

The song is called "Our neighbour" and the singer's name is Edita Piekha.  She is one of the famous Russian singers of the 1960s and on.  This is what she says before she starts singing: "People have asked me before, what was the biggest and most expensive, the most chic gift you've ever received?  Well, this song  was written for me by (at the time) young engineer from a Leningrad factory, Boris Potemkin. He is, unfortunately, no longer living.

And then I sang this song, it became popular--the entire country was singing it.  A year later, he comes to me bringing a huge carpet and says, everyone is singing my song, thanks to you--I became a rich man and I used all my royalties to buy you this carpet.  He has passed away since, but I still have the carpet. And the song is still here, too, 40 years later.  This was a man unwilling to spend money to buy a rug for himself but he bought that one for me; that was the biggest and the most expensive present I've ever received.

So the song: a hymn to communal housing (do you all know what that was? ;)--Cat

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Cat

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