Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin

Author:Aleksandr Pushkin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-01-07T16:00:00+00:00

VII

Lacking the lofty passion

not to spare life for the sake of sounds,

an iamb from a trochee he could not—

[4] no matter how we strove—distinguish;

dispraised Homer, Theocritus,

but read, in compensation, Adam Smith,

and was a deep economist:

[8] that is, he could assess the way

a state grows rich,

and what it lives upon, and why

it needs not gold

[12] when it has got the simple product.

His father could not understand him,

and mortgaged his lands.

VIII

All Eugene knew besides

I have no leisure to recount;

but where he was a veritable genius,

[4] what he more firmly knew than all the arts,

what since his prime had been to him

toil, anguish, joy,

what occupied the livelong day

[8] his fretting indolence—

was the art of soft passion

which Naso sang,

wherefore a sufferer he ended

[12] his brilliant and tumultuous span

in Moldavia, in the wild depth of steppes,

far from his Italy.

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