From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: Twenty-one regular four-line stanzas, rhyming alternately.
Translated from Lermontoff.
First appeared in "Le Caucase," No. for May 4th, 1859, Chapter XXXIX.
Now in the "Impressions de Voyage : Le Caucase," Chapter XL. M. Glinel possessed the autograph MS., in which he details seven variants from the printed text.
