Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XLV

Having cast off the burden of the monde's convenhaving, as he, from vain pursuits desisted, [tions, with him I made friends at that time. 4 I liked his traits, to dreams the involuntary addiction, nonimitative oddity, and sharp, chilled mind; 8 I was embittered, he was gloomy; the play of passions we knew both; on both, life weighed; in both, the heart's glow had gone out; 12 for both, there was in store the rancor of blind Fortuna and of men at the very morn of our days.