To Originals
Read 'To Originals' by 'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
In these numbers be express'd
Meaning deep, 'neath merry jest.
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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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