“Then think you not it might be wise to get

Some less of man in you, and more of God?—

How fares it with your prayers?”

“But yet,” I urged,

“It scarcely seems my fault, this woe of mine.”

“Seems not your fault?” he answer’d; “weigh the sides:

One for you—three against you—which should

yield?”

“No; two for me,” I said,—“myself and Haydn;

Besides, the other three have no such love.”