XXV + 

But Lenski madrigals ne’er wrote + 

In Olga’s album, youthful maid, + 

To purest love he tuned his note + 

Nor frigid adulation paid. + 

What never was remarked or heard + 

Of Olga he in song averred; + 

His elegies, which plenteous streamed, + 

Both natural and truthful seemed. + 

Thus thou, Yazykoff, dost arise + 

In amorous flights when so inspired, + 

Singing God knows what maid admired, + 

And all thy precious elegies, + 

Sometime collected, shall relate + 

The story of thy life and fate. + 