Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

Chapter Two
XXVIII

She on the balcony liked to prevene Aurora's rise, when, in the pale sky, disappears 4 the choral dance of stars, and earth's rim softly lightens, and, morning's herald, the wind whiffs, and rises by degrees the day. 8 In winter, when night's shade possesses longer half the world, and longer in the idle stillness, by the bemisted moon, 12, the lazy orient sleeps, awakened at her customary hour she would get up by candles.