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Canto the First
XLII
ОглавлениеAbsorbed in melancholy mood
And o’er the granite coping bent,
Onegin meditative stood,
E’en as the poet says he leant.[17]
‘Tis silent all! Alone the cries
Of the night sentinels arise
And from the Millionaya[18] afar
The sudden rattling of a car.
Lo! on the sleeping river borne,
A boat with splashing oar floats by,
And now we hear delightedly
A jolly song and distant horn;
But sweeter in a midnight dream
Torquato Tasso’s strains I deem.
17
Refers to Mouravieff’s Goddess of the Neva. At St. Petersburg the banks of the Neva are lined throughout with splendid granite quays.
18
A street running parallel to the Neva, and leading from the Winter Palace to the Summer Palace and Garden.