Hm! Hm!

Hm! hm! Noble reader,
Is all your kin in health?
Permit me: perhaps you would care
To learn from me just now
What relations, properly speaking, are.
Relations are people of this sort:
We are obliged to caress them,
To love them, to respect them from the heart,
And, according to the custom of the people,
To call on them at Christmas
Or to congratulate them by post,
So that for the rest of the year
They may not think of us at all...
And so, God grant them long days!

Literal translation

Pushkin on the season of obligatory festive visits, Eugene Onegin, Chapter IV, stanza XX

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