The Works of J. W. von Goethe/Volume 9/To Originals

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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."