Social Commentaries
To Originals
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Epigrams
Social Commentaries
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."
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “To Originals.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/197/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “To Originals.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/197/.
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