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Eugene Onegin Onegin fares to Astrahan [xi], and from there to the rXII-| [Caucasus: He sees the wayward Terek eroding its steep banks $ before him soars a stately eagle, 4 a deer stands, with bent horns 5 the camel lies in the cliff's shade 5 in meadows courses the Circassian's steed, and round nomadic tents 8 the sheep of Kalmuks graze. Afar [loom] the Caucasian masses. The way to them is clear. War penetrated beyond their natural divide, 12 across their perilous barriers. The banks of the Aragva and Kura saw Russian tents. [XIII] Now, the eternal watchman of the waste, Beshtu, compressed around by hills, stands up, sharp-peaked, 4 and, showing green, Mashuk, Mashuk, of healing streams dispenser $ around its magic brooks a pallid swarm of patients presses, 8 the victims, some of martial honor, some of the Piles, and some of Cypris. In waves miraculous the sufferer plans to make firm the thread of life. 12 To leave the wicked years' offenses at the bottom [plans] the coquette, and the old man [plans] to grow young-if only for a moment.