XXVII + 

Ah! how Tattiana was transformed, + 

How thoroughly her part she took! + 

How soon to habits she conformed + 

Which crushing dignity must brook! + 

Who would the maiden innocent + 

In the unmoved, magnificent + 

Autocrat of the drawing-room seek? + 

And he had made her heart beat quick! + 

’Twas he whom, amid nightly shades, + 

Whilst Morpheus his approach delays, + 

She mourned and to the moon would raise + 

The languid eye of love-sick maids, + 

Dreaming perchance in weal or woe + 

To end with him her path below. + 