but friendly interest I do prize;
and I should like to have presented you
with a token worthier of you,
yes, worthier of your noble spirit,
so full of sublime imagination,
of lively, limpid poetry,
of lofty ideas
and of simplicity.
But there it is. Be kind:
accept this batch of patchy chapters,
half-funny abd half-sad,
idealistic, down-to-earth -
the slipshod product of my leisure-hours,
my sleepless nights, my momentary inspirations,
of a life blighted ere its prime,
of a mind's chilling observations,
and of a heart's experience of pain.»
Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
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