Note 21 — II. MEN OF THE OLD TIME AND THE NEW
Steven T. (Steven Tracy) Byington translation
How the priests tinkle! how important they Would make it out, that men should come their way And babble, just as yesterday, to-day!
Oh! blame them not! They know man's need, I say; For he takes all his happiness this way, To babble just to-morrow as to-day.
—Translated from Goethe's "Venetian Epigrams."