From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: One six-line stanza, rhyming a, a, b, c, c, b.
Translated from Lermontoff.
First appeared in Dumas' journal "Le Caucase," No. for May 4th, 1859, Chapter XXXIX.
Now in Chapter XL. of the "Impressions de Voyage : Le Caucase."
M. Glinel possessed Dumas' autograph MS. of these verses.
