XI + 

A dreadful sleep Tattiana sleeps. + 

She dreamt she journeyed o’er a field + 

All covered up with snow in heaps, + 

By melancholy fogs concealed. + 

Amid the snowdrifts which surround + 

A stream, by winter’s ice unbound, + 

Impetuously clove its way + 

With boiling torrent dark and gray; + 

Two poles together glued by ice, + 

A fragile bridge and insecure, + 

Spanned the unbridled torrent o’er; + 

Beside the thundering abyss + 

Tattiana in despair unfeigned + 

Rooted unto the spot remained. + 