Words such as thou now utterest will no longer flow from thee after death.
I see before me people rising like the mountains, to them I will declare the truth.
I seem to see the rocks and mountains, to the reindeer I would liken them.
Greater are they than boats, like a steamship on the waves of Irtish.
But I see in thee, oh Ruler, after the majesty of the Emperor, the highest, to be compared to a mountain, precious as an ambling reindeer.
It was my mother who bore me, but my tongue hath God given.
If I should not now speak before thee, to whom should I ever speak?
Full freedom have I to speak, let me speak as if to my own folk.
Prosperity to thee, sir, all hail and blessing to thy guests, among them noble men, though they have thus unbent among us.
Each guest of the General is also ours, and assured of our friendship.