XXXVII + 

I will with thy divinity + 

Contend with knife and fork and platter, + 

But grant with magnanimity + 

I’m beaten in another matter; + 

Thy heroes, sanguinary wights, + 

Also thy rough-and-tumble fights, + 

Thy Venus and thy Jupiter, + 

More advantageously appear + 

Than cold Onegin’s oddities, + 

The aspect of a landscape drear. + 

Or e’en Istòmina, my dear, + 

And fashion’s gay frivolities; + 

But my Tattiana, on my soul, + 

Is sweeter than thy Helen foul. + 