I am not wicked -- Hot
blood is my fault -- my crime is that I am young. I am not wicked,
truly not wicked. Even though wildly surging emotions may betray
my heart, yet my heart is good --
Precepts.
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never
to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
Continue
to think now and then of your friend who esteems you.
Ludwig Beethoven
From
Bonn near Cologne