“O Rus!”— Horace
[Odessa, December 1823.]
I
The village wherein yawned Eugene
Was a delightful2 little spot,
There friends of pure delight had been
Grateful to Heaven for their lot.
The lonely mansion-house to screen
From gales3 a hill behind was seen;
Before it ran a stream. Behold4!
Afar, where clothed in green and gold
Meadows and cornfields are displayed,
Villages in the distance show
And herds5 of oxen wandering low;
Whilst nearer, sunk in deeper shade,
A thick immense neglected grove6
Extended — haunt which Dryads love.
II
’Twas built, the venerable pile,
As lordly mansions7 ought to be,
In solid, unpretentious style,
The style of wise antiquity8.
Lofty the chambers9 one and all,
Silk tapestry10 upon the wall,
Imperial portraits hang around
And stoves of various shapes abound11.
All this I know is out of date,
I cannot tell the reason why,
But Eugene, incontestably,
The matter did not agitate12,
Because he yawned at the bare view
Of drawing-rooms or old or new.
III
He took the room wherein the old
Man — forty years long in this wise —
His housekeeper13 was wont14 to scold,
Look through the window and kill flies.
’Twas plain — an oaken floor ye scan,
Two cupboards, table, soft divan15,
And not a speck16 of dirt descried17.
Oneguine oped the cupboards wide.
In one he doth accounts behold,
Here bottles stand in close array,
There jars of cider block the way,
An almanac but eight years old.
His uncle, busy man indeed,
No other book had time to read.
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Alone amid possessions great,
Eugene at first began to dream,
If but to lighten Time’s dull rate,
Of many an economic scheme;
This anchorite amid his waste
The ancient barshtchina replaced
By an obrok’s indulgent rate:23
The peasant blessed his happy fate.
But this a heinous18 crime appeared
Unto his neighbour, man of thrift19,
Who secretly denounced the gift,
And many another slily sneered20;
And all with one accord agreed,
He was a dangerous fool indeed.
23 The barshtchina was the corvee, or forced labour of three days per week rendered previous to the emancipation21 of 1861 by the serfs to their lord.
The obrok was a species of poll-tax paid by a serf, either in lieu of the forced labour or in consideration of being permitted to exercise a trade or profession elsewhere. Very heavy obroks have at times been levied22 on serfs possessed23 of skill or accomplishments24, or who had amassed25 wealth; and circumstances may be easily imagined which, under such a system, might lead to great abuses.
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All visited him at first, of course;
But since to the backdoor they led
Most usually a Cossack horse
Upon the Don’s broad pastures bred
If they but heard domestic loads
Come rumbling26 up the neighbouring roads,
Most by this circumstance offended
All overtures27 of friendship ended.
“Oh! what a fool our neighbour is!
He’s a freemason, so we think.
Alone he doth his claret drink,
A lady’s hand doth never kiss.
’Tis yes! no! never madam! sir!”24
This was his social character.
24 The neighbours complained of Oneguine’s want of courtesy. He always replied “da” or “nyet,” yes or no, instead of “das” or “nyets”— the final s being a contraction28 of “sudar” or “sudarinia,” i.e. sir or madam.
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Into the district then to boot
A new proprietor29 arrived,
From whose analysis minute
The neighbourhood fresh sport derived30.
Vladimir Lenski was his name,
From Gottingen inspired he came,
A worshipper of Kant, a bard31,
A young and handsome galliard.
He brought from mystic Germany
The fruits of learning and combined
A fiery32 and eccentric mind,
Idolatry of liberty,
A wild enthusiastic tongue,
Black curls which to his shoulders hung.
VII
The pervert33 world with icy chill
Had not yet withered34 his young breast.
His heart reciprocated35 still
When Friendship smiled or Love caressed36.
He was a dear delightful fool —
A nursling yet for Hope to school.
The riot of the world and glare
Still sovereigns of his spirit were,
And by a sweet delusion39 he
Would soothe40 the doubtings of his soul,
He deemed of human life the goal
To be a charming mystery:
He racked his brains to find its clue
And marvels41 deemed he thus should view.
VIII
This he believed: a kindred spirit
Impelled42 to union with his own
Lay languishing43 both day and night —
Waiting his coming — his alone!
He deemed his friends but longed to make
Great sacrifices for his sake!
That a friend’s arm in every case
Felled a calumniator44 base!
That chosen heroes consecrate45,
Friends of the sons of every land,
Exist — that their immortal46 band
Shall surely, be it soon or late,
Pour on this orb47 a dazzling light
And bless mankind with full delight.
IX
Compassion48 now or wrath49 inspires
And now philanthropy his soul,
And now his youthful heart desires
The path which leads to glory’s goal.
His harp50 beneath that sky had rung
Where sometime Goethe, Schiller sung,
And at the altar of their fame
He kindled51 his poetic52 flame.
But from the Muses’ loftiest height
The gifted songster never swerved54,
But proudly in his song preserved
An ever transcendental flight;
His transports were quite maidenly56,
Charming with grave simplicity57.
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He sang of love — to love a slave.
His ditties were as pure and bright
As thoughts which gentle maidens58 have,
As a babe’s slumber59, or the light
Of the moon in the tranquil60 skies,
Goddess of lovers’ tender sighs.
He sang of separation grim,
Of what not, and of distant dim,
Of roses to romancers dear;
To foreign lands he would allude61,
Where long time he in solitude62
Had let fall many a bitter tear:
He sang of life’s fresh colours stained
Before he eighteen years attained63.
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Since Eugene in that solitude
Gifts such as these alone could prize,
A scant64 attendance Lenski showed
At neighbouring hospitalities.
He shunned65 those parties boisterous66;
The conversation tedious
About the crop of hay, the wine,
The kennel67 or a kindred line,
Was certainly not erudite
Nor sparkled with poetic fire,
Nor wit, nor did the same inspire
A sense of social delight,
But still more stupid did appear
The gossip of their ladies fair.
XII
Handsome and rich, the neighbourhood
Lenski as a good match received —
Such is the country custom good;
All mothers their sweet girls believed
Suitable for this semi-Russian.
He enters: rapidly discussion
Shifts, tacks68 about, until they prate69
The sorrows of a single state.
Perchance where Dunia pours out tea
The young proprietor we find;
To Dunia then they whisper: Mind!
And a guitar produced we see,
And Heavens! warbled forth70 we hear:
Come to my golden palace, dear!25
25 From the lay of the Russalka, i.e. mermaid71 of the Dnieper.
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But Lenski, having no desire
Vows72 matrimonial to break,
With our Oneguine doth aspire73
Acquaintance instantly to make.
They met. Earth, water, prose and verse,
Or ice and flame, are not diverse
If they were similar in aught.
At first such contradictions wrought74
Mutual75 repulsion and ennui76,
But grown familiar side by side
On horseback every day they ride —
Inseparable soon they be.
Thus oft — this I myself confess —
Men become friends from idleness.
XIV
But even thus not now-a-days!
In spite of common sense we’re wont
As cyphers others to appraise77,
Ourselves as unities78 to count;
And like Napoleons each of us
A million bipeds reckons thus
One instrument for his own use —
Feeling is silly, dangerous.
Eugene, more tolerant than this
(Though certainly mankind he knew
And usually despised it too),
Exceptionless as no rule is,
A few of different temper deemed,
Feeling in others much esteemed79.
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With smiling face he Lenski hears;
The poet’s fervid80 conversation
And judgment81 which unsteady veers82
And eye which gleams with inspiration —
All this was novel to Eugene.
The cold reply with gloomy mien83
He oft upon his lips would curb84,
Thinking: ’tis foolish to disturb
This evanescent boyish bliss85.
Time without me will lessons give,
So meantime let him joyous86 live
And deem the world perfection is!
Forgive the fever youth inspires,
And youthful madness, youthful fires.
XVI
The gulf87 between them was so vast,
Debate commanded ample food —
The laws of generations past,
The fruits of science, evil, good,
The prejudices all men have,
The fatal secrets of the grave,
And life and fate in turn selected
Were to analysis subjected.
The fervid poet would recite,
Carried away by ecstasy88,
Fragments of northern poetry,
Whilst Eugene condescending89 quite,
Though scarcely following what was said,
Attentive90 listened to the lad.
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But more the passions occupy
The converse91 of our hermits92 twain,
And, heaving a regretful sigh,
An exile from their troublous reign38,
Eugene would speak regarding these.
Thrice happy who their agonies
Hath suffered but indifferent grown,
Still happier he who ne’er hath known!
By absence who hath chilled his love,
His hate by slander93, and who spends
Existence without wife or friends,
Whom jealous transport cannot move,
And who the rent-roll of his race
Ne’er trusted to the treacherous94 ace1.
XVIII
When, wise at length, we seek repose95
Beneath the flag of Quietude,
When Passion’s fire no longer glows
And when her violence reviewed —
Each gust96 of temper, silly word,
Seems so unnatural97 and absurd:
Reduced with effort unto sense,
We hear with interest intense
The accents wild of other’s woes98,
They stir the heart as heretofore.
So ancient warriors100, battles o’er,
A curious interest disclose
In yarns101 of youthful troopers gay,
Lost in the hamlet far away.
XIX
And in addition youth is flame
And cannot anything conceal102,
Is ever ready to proclaim
The love, hate, sorrow, joy, we feel.
Deeming himself a veteran scarred
In love’s campaigns Oneguine heard
With quite a lachrymose103 expression
The youthful poet’s fond confession104.
He with an innocence105 extreme
His inner consciousness laid bare,
And Eugene soon discovered there
The story of his young love’s dream,
Where plentifully106 feelings flow
Which we experienced long ago.
XX
Alas107! he loved as in our times
Men love no more, as only the
Mad spirit of the man who rhymes
Is still condemned109 in love to be;
One image occupied his mind,
Constant affection intertwined
And an habitual110 sense of pain;
And distance interposed in vain,
Nor years of separation all
Nor homage111 which the Muse53 demands
Nor beauties of far distant lands
Nor study, banquet, rout112 nor ball
His constant soul could ever tire,
Which glowed with virginal desire.
XXI
When but a boy he Olga loved
Unknown as yet the aching heart,
He witnessed tenderly and moved
Her girlish gaiety and sport.
Beneath the sheltering oak tree’s shade
He with his little maiden55 played,
Whilst the fond parents, friends thro’ life,
Dreamed in the future man and wife.
And full of innocent delight,
As in a thicket’s humble113 shade,
Beneath her parents’ eyes the maid
Grew like a lily pure and white,
Unseen in thick and tangled114 grass
By bee and butterfly which pass.
XXII
’Twas she who first within his breast
Poetic transport did infuse,
And thoughts of Olga first impressed
A mournful temper on his Muse.
Farewell! thou golden days of love!
’Twas then he loved the tangled grove
And solitude and calm delight,
The moon, the stars, and shining night —
The moon, the lamp of heaven above,
To whom we used to consecrate
A promenade115 in twilight116 late
With tears which secret sufferers love —
But now in her effulgence117 pale
A substitute for lamps we hail!
XXIII
Obedient she had ever been
And modest, cheerful as the morn,
As a poetic life serene118,
Sweet as the kiss of lovers sworn.
Her eyes were of cerulean blue,
Her locks were of a golden hue119,
Her movements, voice and figure slight,
All about Olga — to a light
Romance of love I pray refer,
You’ll find her portrait there, I vouch120;
I formerly121 admired her much
But finally grew bored by her.
But with her elder sister I
Must now my stanzas122 occupy.
XXIV
Tattiana was her appellation124.
We are the first who such a name
In pages of a love narration125
With such a perversity126 proclaim.
But wherefore not? —’Tis pleasant, nice,
Euphonious127, though I know a spice
It carries of antiquity
And of the attic128. Honestly,
We must admit but little taste
Doth in us or our names appear26
(I speak not of our poems here),
And education runs to waste,
Endowing us from out her store
With affectation — nothing more.
26 The Russian annotator129 remarks: “The most euphonious Greek names, e.g. Agathon, Philotas, Theodora, Thekla, etc., are used amongst us by the lower classes only.”
XXV
And so Tattiana was her name,
Nor by her sister’s brilliancy
Nor by her beauty she became
The cynosure130 of every eye.
Shy, silent did the maid appear
As in the timid forest deer,
Even beneath her parents’ roof
Stood as estranged131 from all aloof132,
Nearest and dearest knew not how
To fawn133 upon and love express;
A child devoid134 of childishness
To romp135 and play she ne’er would go:
Oft staring through the window pane136
Would she in silence long remain.
XXVI
Contemplativeness, her delight,
E’en from her cradle’s earliest dream,
Adorned137 with many a vision bright
Of rural life the sluggish138 stream;
Ne’er touched her fingers indolent
The needle nor, o’er framework bent139,
Would she the canvas tight enrich
With gay design and silken stitch.
Desire to rule ye may observe
When the obedient doll in sport
An infant maiden doth exhort140
Polite demeanour to preserve,
Gravely repeating to another
Recent instructions of its mother.
XXVII
But Tania ne’er displayed a passion
For dolls, e’en from her earliest years,
And gossip of the town and fashion
She ne’er repeated unto hers.
Strange unto her each childish game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
And when for Olga nurse arrayed
In the broad meadow a gay rout,
All the young people round about,
At prisoner’s base she never played.
Their noisy laugh her soul annoyed,
Their giddy sports she ne’er enjoyed.
XXVIII
She loved upon the balcony
To anticipate the break of day,
When on the pallid141 eastern sky
The starry142 beacons143 fade away,
The horizon luminous144 doth grow,
Morning’s forerunners145, breezes blow
And gradually day unfolds.
In winter, when Night longer holds
A hemisphere beneath her sway,
Longer the East inert146 reclines
Beneath the moon which dimly shines,
And calmly sleeps the hours away,
At the same hour she oped her eyes
And would by candlelight arise.
XXIX
Romances pleased her from the first,
Her all in all did constitute;
In love adventures she was versed147,
Rousseau and Richardson to boot.
Not a bad fellow was her father
Though superannuated148 rather;
In books he saw nought149 to condemn108
But, as he never opened them,
Viewed them with not a little scorn,
And gave himself but little pain
His daughter’s book to ascertain150
Which ‘neath her pillow lay till morn.
His wife was also mad upon
The works of Mr. Richardson.
XXX
She was thus fond of Richardson
Not that she had his works perused151,
Or that adoring Grandison
That rascal152 Lovelace she abused;
But that Princess Pauline of old,
Her Moscow cousin, often told
The tale of these romantic men;
Her husband was a bridegroom then,
And she despite herself would waste
Sighs on another than her lord
Whose qualities appeared to afford
More satisfaction to her taste.
Her Grandison was in the Guard,
A noted153 fop who gambled hard.
XXXI
Like his, her dress was always nice,
The height of fashion, fitting tight,
But contrary to her advice
The girl in marriage they unite.
Then, her distraction154 to allay155,
The bridegroom sage156 without delay
Removed her to his country seat,
Where God alone knows whom she met.
She struggled hard at first thus pent,
Night separated from her spouse157,
Then became busy with the house,
First reconciled and then content;
Habit was given us in distress158
By Heaven in lieu of happiness.
XXXII
Habit alleviates159 the grief
Inseparable from our lot;
This great discovery relief
And consolation160 soon begot161.
And then she soon ‘twixt work and leisure
Found out the secret how at pleasure
To dominate her worthy162 lord,
And harmony was soon restored.
The workpeople she superintended,
Mushrooms for winter salted down,
Kept the accounts, shaved many a crown,(*)
The bath on Saturdays attended,
When angry beat her maids, I grieve,
And all without her husband’s leave.
* The serfs destined163 for military service used to have a portion of their heads shaved as a distinctive164 mark.
XXXIII
In her friends’ albums, time had been,
With blood instead of ink she scrawled165,
Baptized Prascovia Pauline,
And in her conversation drawled.
She wore her corset tightly bound,
The Russian N with nasal sound
She would pronounce a la Francaise;
But soon she altered all her ways,
Corset and album and Pauline,
Her sentimental166 verses all,
She soon forgot, began to call
Akulka who was once Celine,
And had with waddling167 in the end
Her caps and night-dresses to mend.
XXXIV
As for her spouse he loved her dearly,
In her affairs ne’er interfered168,
Entrusted169 all to her sincerely,
In dressing-gown at meals appeared.
Existence calmly sped along,
And oft at eventide a throng170
Of friends unceremonious would
Assemble from the neighbourhood:
They growl171 a bit — they scandalise —
They crack a feeble joke and smile —
Thus the time passes and meanwhile
Olga the tea must supervise —
’Tis time for supper, now for bed,
And soon the friendly troop hath fled.
XXXV
They in a peaceful life preserved
Customs by ages sanctified,
Strictly172 the Carnival173 observed,
Ate Russian pancakes at Shrovetide,
Twice in the year to fast were bound,
Of whirligigs were very fond,
Of Christmas carols, song and dance;
When people with long countenance174
On Trinity Sunday yawned at prayer,
Three tears they dropt with humble mein
Upon a bunch of lovage green;
Kvass needful was to them as air;
On guests their servants used to wait
By rank as settled by the State.27
27 The foregoing stanza123 requires explanation. Russian pancakes or “blinni” are consumed vigorously by the lower orders during the Carnival. At other times it is difficult to procure175 them, at any rate in the large towns.
The Russian peasants are childishly fond of whirligigs, which are also much in vogue176 during the Carnival.
“Christmas Carols” is not an exact equivalent for the Russian phrase. “Podbliudni pessni,” are literally177 “dish songs,” or songs used with dishes (of water) during the “sviatki” or Holy Nights, which extend from Christmas to Twelfth Night, for purposes of divination178. Reference will again be made to this superstitious179 practice, which is not confined to Russia. See Note 52.
“Song and dance,” the well-known “khorovod,” in which the dance proceeds to vocal180 music.
“Lovage,” the Levisticum officinalis, is a hardy181 plant growing very far north, though an inhabitant of our own kitchen gardens. The passage containing the reference to the three tears and Trinity Sunday was at first deemed irreligious by the Russian censors182, and consequently expunged183.
Kvass is of various sorts: there is the common kvass of fermented184 rye used by the peasantry, and the more expensive kvass of the restaurants, iced and flavoured with various fruits.
The final two lines refer to the “Tchin,” or Russian social hierarchy185. There are fourteen grades in the Tchin assigning relative rank and precedence to the members of the various departments of the State, civil, military, naval186, court, scientific and educational. The military and naval grades from the 14th up to the 7th confer personal nobility only, whilst above the 7th hereditary187 rank is acquired. In the remaining departments, civil or otherwise, personal nobility is only attained with the 9th grade, hereditary with the 4th.
XXXVI
Thus age approached, the common doom188,
And death before the husband wide
Opened the portals of the tomb
And a new diadem189 supplied.28
Just before dinner-time he slept,
By neighbouring families bewept,
By children and by faithful wife
With deeper woe99 than others’ grief.
He was an honest gentleman,
And where at last his bones repose
The epitaph on marble shows:
Demetrius Larine, sinful man,
Servant of God and brigadier,
Enjoyeth peaceful slumber here.
28 A play upon the word “venetz,” crown, which also signifies a nimbus or glory, and is the symbol of marriage from the fact of two gilt190 crowns being held over the heads of the bride and bridegroom during the ceremony. The literal meaning of the passage is therefore: his earthly marriage was dissolved and a heavenly one was contracted.
XXXVII
To his Penates now returned,
Vladimir Lenski visited
His neighbour’s lowly tomb and mourned
Above the ashes of the dead.
There long time sad at heart he stayed:
“Poor Yorick,” mournfully he said,
“How often in thine arms I lay;
How with thy medal I would play,
The Medal Otchakoff conferred!29
To me he would his Olga give,
Would whisper: shall I so long live?”—
And by a genuine sorrow stirred,
Lenski his pencil-case took out
And an elegiac poem wrote.
29 The fortress191 of Otchakoff was taken by storm on the 18th December 1788 by a Russian army under Prince Potemkin. Thirty thousand Turks are said to have perished during the assault and ensuing massacre192.
XXXVIII
Likewise an epitaph with tears
He writes upon his parents’ tomb,
And thus ancestral dust reveres193.
Oh! on the fields of life how bloom
Harvests of souls unceasingly
By Providence’s dark decree!
They blossom, ripen194 and they fall
And others rise ephemeral!
Thus our light race grows up and lives,
A moment effervescing195 stirs,
Then seeks ancestral sepulchres,
The appointed hour arrives, arrives!
And our successors soon shall drive
Us from the world wherein we live.
XXXIX
Meantime, drink deeply of the flow
Of frivolous196 existence, friends;
Its insignificance197 I know
And care but little for its ends.
To dreams I long have closed mine eyes,
Yet sometimes banished198 hopes will rise
And agitate my heart again;
And thus it is ‘twould cause me pain
Without the faintest trace to leave
This world. I do not praise desire,
Yet still apparently199 aspire
My mournful fate in verse to weave,
That like a friendly voice its tone
Rescue me from oblivion.
XL
Perchance some heart ’twill agitate,
And then the stanzas of my theme
Will not, preserved by kindly200 Fate,
Perish absorbed by Lethe’s stream.
Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous portrait indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
My gratitude201 do not disdain202,
Admirer of the peaceful Muse,
Whose memory doth not refuse
My light productions to retain,
Whose hands indulgently caress37
The bays of age and helplessness.
End of Canto203 the Second.
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divination
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diadem
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