VI + 

Two minutes they in silence spent, + 

Onegin then approached and said: + 

“You have a letter to me sent. + 

Do not excuse yourself. I read + 

Confessions which a trusting heart + 

May well in innocence impart. + 

Charming is your sincerity, + 

Feelings which long had ceased to be + 

It wakens in my breast again. + 

But I came not to adulate: + 

Your frankness I shall compensate + 

By an avowal just as plain. + 

An ear to my confession lend; + 

To thy decree my will I bend. + 