Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XLIII

What can one do at this time in the wilds? Walk? But the country at that time is an involuntary eyesore 4 in its unbroken nakedness. Go galloping in the harsh prairie? But, catching with a blunted shoe the treacherous ice, one's mount 8 is likely any moment to come down. Stay under your desolate roof, read; here is Pradt, here's Walter Scott!

Don't want to? Verify expenses, 12 grumble or drink, and the long evening somehow will pass; and next day the same thing, and famously you'll spend the winter.