copy for Pushkin, who, when he received it, expressed regret

For all the male kind far excels in skill,

And cleverer is by much- until at last

The rugged farmer folk jeered at such tasks,

And so were eager soon to give them o'er

To women's hands, and in more hardy toil

Mother of things, was the first seed-sower

And primal grafter; since the berries and acorns,

Dropping from off the trees, would there beneath