XLVI + 

In groups, official striplings glance + 

Conceitedly on Tania fair, + 

And views amongst themselves advance + 

Unfavourable unto her. + 

But one buffoon unhappy deemed + 

Her the ideal which he dreamed, + 

And leaning ’gainst the portal closed + 

To her an elegy composed. + 

Also one Viázemski, remarking + 

Tattiana by a poor aunt’s side, + 

Successfully to please her tried, + 

And an old gent the poet marking + 

By Tania, smoothing his peruke, + 

To ask her name the trouble took. + 