On Departure For The Caucas

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Farewell my hateful Russian country!
  People of lord and serf you are--
Farewell, salute, bent knee and hand-kiss,
  Three-masters, uniform and star!

Soon will the Caucas now conceal me,
  There I shall not discovered be
By eyes and ears of paid, false sergeants--
  Who all do hear and all do see!

© Mikhail Lermontov