XLII + 

Hark! the mazurka. In times past, + 

When the mazurka used to peal, + 

All rattled in the ball-room vast, + 

The parquet cracked beneath the heel, + 

And jolting jarred the window-frames. + 

’Tis not so now. Like gentle dames + 

We glide along a floor of wax. + 

However, the mazurka lacks + 

Nought of its charms original + 

In country towns, where still it keeps + 

Its stamping, capers and high leaps. + 

Fashion is there immutable, + 

Who tyrannizes us with ease, + 

Of modern Russians the disease. + 