Page:Poems, Alexander Pushkin, 1888.djvu/69

Rh Let his example a lesson be:

Not contradiction loves a ruler,

Not all can be Prince Dolgorukys,

Happy only is the simple citizen.

My grandfather, when the rebels rose

In the palace of Peterhof,

Like Munich, faithful he remained

To the fallen Peter Third;

To honor came then the Orloffs,

But my sire into fortress, prison—

Quiet now was our stern race,

And I was born merely—citizen.

Beneath my crested seal

The roll of family charts I've kept;

Not running after magnates new,

My pride of blood I have subdued;

I'm but an unknown singer

Simply Pushkin, not Moussin,

My strength is mine, not from court:

I am a writer, a citizen.