TO ORIGINALS. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In these numbers be express'd Meaning deep, 'neath merry jest. -----
TO ORIGINALS.
A FELLOW says: "I own no school or college; No master lives whom I acknowledge; And pray don't entertain the thought That from the dead I e'er learnt aught." This, if I rightly understand, Means: "I'm a blockhead at first hand."
1815.
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