XXIII + 

On this artistical retreat + 

Having once fixed your interest, + 

I might to connoisseurs repeat + 

The style in which my hero dressed; + 

Though I confess I hardly dare + 

Describe in detail the affair, + 

Since words like pantaloons, vest, coat, + 

To Russ indigenous are not; + 

And also that my feeble verse⁠— + 

Pardon I ask for such a sin⁠— + 

With words of foreign origin + 

Too much I’m given to intersperse, + 

Though to the Academy I come + 

And oft its Dictionary thumb. + 