I own some right to heed the voice within;
And none can rightly bid my spirit bend,
A passive slave to laws outside of me.”
XLIII.
“O Haydn,” begg’d I, “say not this. Here speaks
The same rebellion that was once my own.
We must not judge for self, but reverence
The words of men ordain’d to teach the world;
The words of men so learnèd in the truth;