A: La Saisiaz.
Thought itself, for aught he knows, may be afflicted with a kind of colour-blindness; and he knows no appeal when one affirms "green as grass," and another contradicts him with "red as grass." Under such circumstances, it is not strange that Browning should decline to speak except for himself, and that he will
"Nowise dare to play the spokesman for my brothers strong or weak,"
or that he will far less presume to pronounce for God, and pretend that the truth finds utterance from lips of clay—
"Pass off human lisp as echo of the sphere-song out of reach."
"Have I knowledge? Confounded it shrivels at Wisdom laid bare!
Have I forethought? how purblind, how blank, to the Infinite Care!
"And thus looking within and around me, I ever renew
(With that stoop of the soul, which in bending upraises it too)