Ah, if one had no need to use the tongue!

How obvious and how easy 't is to talk

Inside the soul, a ghostly dialogue—

Instincts with guesses,—instinct, guess, again

With dubious knowledge, half-experience: each

And all the interlocutors alike

Subordinating,—as decorum bids,

Oh, never fear! but still decisively,—

Claims from without that take too high a tone,

—("God wills this, man wants that, the dignity