Maybe the slander of friendship’s obliquity.
No! you are simply aweary of fruitless fields;
Strangers to passions and strangers to punishment.
Frigid eternally, free everlastingly,
You have no country, and cannot know banishment!
FOOTNOTES:
[2] Lermontof was banished from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus.
PRAYER.
(AN EXPERIMENT IN RUSSIAN DACTYLS.)
Praying now earnestly, Mother of God, come I,
Bending before thy shrine radiant in brilliancy,