XXXIII + 

And it may be a secret dread + 

Lest the world or her lord divine + 

A certain little escapade + 

Well known unto Onegin mine. + 

’Tis hopeless! Homeward doth he flee + 

Cursing his own stupidity, + 

And brooding o’er the ills he bore, + 

Society renounced once more. + 

Then in the silent cabinet + 

He in imagination saw + 

The time when Melancholy’s claw + 

’Mid worldly pleasures chased him yet, + 

Caught him and by the collar took + 

And shut him in a lonely nook. + 