XXIII + 

Brought by a pedlar vagabond + 

Unto their solitude one day, + 

This monument of thought profound + 

Tattiana purchased with a stray + 

Tome of Malvina, and but three + 

And a half rubles down gave she; + 

Also, to equalise the scales, + 

She got a book of nursery tales, + 

A grammar, likewise Petriads two, + 

Marmontel also, tome the third; + 

Tattiana every day conferred + 

With Martin Zadeka. In woe + 

She consolation thence obtained⁠— + 

Inseparable they remained. + 