XXVIII + 

I still a complication view, + 

My country’s honour and repute + 

Demands that I translate for you + 

The letter which Tattiana wrote. + 

At Russ she was by no means clever + 

And read our newspapers scarce ever, + 

And in her native language she + 

Possessed nor ease nor fluency, + 

So she in French herself expressed. + 

I cannot help it I declare, + 

Though hitherto a lady ne’er + 

In Russ her love made manifest, + 

And never hath our language proud + 

In correspondence been allowed. + 