Boratynsky Y. At first, a thought that comes...

At first, a thought that comes to be
In Author’s poem to size,
As if a maiden, low-key
Is to unheeding public’s eyes;
Then, with her courage found, she
Much craftiness and slickness shows,
With looks of hers for all to see,
As if a blasé flirtee
In libertine novelistic prose;
An old chatterer, she thence,
Whilst raising a clam’rous cry,
In mag disputes will multiply
That which has long been common sense.


«Сначала, мысль, воплощена…», 1837–38


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