XXXIV + 

A true Childe Harold my Eugene + 

To idle musing was a prey; + 

At morn an icy bath within + 

He sat, and then the livelong day, + 

Alone within his habitation + 

And buried deep in meditation, + 

He round the billiard-table stalked, + 

The balls impelled, the blunt cue chalked; + 

When evening o’er the landscape looms, + 

Billiards abandoned, cue forgot, + 

A table to the fire is brought, + 

And he waits dinner. Lenski comes, + 

Driving abreast three horses gray. + 

“Bring dinner now without delay!” + 