Notes from the Underground
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Part II

A Propos of the Wet Snow

When from dark error’s subjugation
My words of passionate exhortation
  Had wrenched thy fainting spirit free;
And writhing prone in thine affliction
Thou didst recall with malediction
  The vice that had encompassed thee:
And when thy slumbering conscience, fretting
  By recollection’s torturing flame,
Thou didst reveal the hideous setting
  Of thy life’s current ere I came:
When suddenly I saw thee sicken,
  And weeping, hide thine anguished face,
Revolted, maddened, horror-stricken,
  At memories of foul disgrace.
          Nekrassov
          (translated by Juliet Soskice).

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