You are trying to skate on Swan Lake
trying to cut a remarkable figure-of-eight
Middle-aged and white-haired, do I need to help you?
I will stand and wait: drawing a delphinium
can be easier than learning how to skate.

Ballet tights, far too thin for winter;
suggest you dress more warmly.
The shades of night are on the forest
soon the coach will take you to St Petersburg.