Southey's next three lines are almost literally reflected in Puskin's eighth stanza, but Puskin's action is much more vivid and dramatic: Southey's "The arrows pass'd him by to fight and left, / The spear-point pierced him not, the scymitar / Glanced from his helmet" is smoothly but more vigorously rendered by "And all around the arrows whistled, / Not touching him, / Past the javelins flew, / His helmet the sword did not cleave" ("I krugom svistali strely, / Ne kasajasja ego, / Mimo drotiki letali, /
Slema mec ne rassekal").