To the steed she hastened in the meadow,
Gave the steed a mortal wound, and hurried
To her husband, whom she thus accosted:—
“Evil is the love thou bear’st thy sister,
And thy gifts are worse than wasted to her;
She has stabb’d thy courser in the meadow.”
Paul inquired of Yelitza, his sister,
“Why this deed, as God shall recompense thee?”
High and loudly, then the maid protested:
“By my life, it was not I, my brother;