Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

136
Chapter Two
XVI

Between them everything engendered discussions and led to reflection: the pacts of bygone races, 4 the fruits of learning, Good and Evil, and centuried prejudices, and the grave's fateful mysteries, destiny and life in their turn- 8 all was subjected to their judgment. The poet in the heat of his contentions recited, in a trance, meantime, fragments of Nordic poems, 12 and lenient Eugene, although he did not understand them much, would dutifully listen to the youth.