Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXIX

All ages are to love submissive 5 but to young virgin hearts its impulses are beneficial 4 as are spring storms to fields. They freshen in the rain of passions, and renovate themselves, and ripen, and vigorous life gives 8 both rich bloom and sweet fruit. But at a late and barren age, at the turn of our years, sad is the trace of a dead passion… 12 Thus storms of the cold autumn into a marsh transform the meadow and strip the woods around. )05 Eugene Onegin