Luyện nghe bài hát Faustian Echoes

[Faust:] "I, Johannes Faust, do upon thee, Mephistopheles!"

O growing Moon, didst thou but
A last time on this of mine
this desk how oft have I
At midnight seen rising high
O'er book and I bend
Thou appear, o mournful friend

I am the spirit ever denies!
And so: for all that is born
Deserves to be in scorn
Therefore best if nothing were created
Destruction, sin, wickedness - stated
All of which you as evil have
is my element - there I abide

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Scatter the with a lavish hand
Water, fire, tavern
and beasts, all within command
Thus in our narrow today
Creation's ample scope
Wander swiftly, observing
the Heavens, to the World, to Hell!

The World of Spirits is not to thee!

[Mephistopheles:] "Now then, Faustus. wouldst thou have Mephisto do?"

"I thee, Mephisto, wait upon me while I live... to do whatever Faustus shall command. Be it to make the moon drop from outer sphere, or the ocean to overwhelm the world. Go bear these tidings to great Lucifer: say he surrenders up his soul. So that he shall spare him four and twenty years, letting him live in all voluptiousness, having thee ever to attend on me. To give me whatsoever I shall ask."

"I will."

Sublime spirit, thou hast me all
All for I besought thee, not in vain
thou reveal thy countenance in the fire
Thou hast given me Nature for a
the power to enjoy and feel
Only a visit of bewilderment
Thou [then bringest all the living creatures
And taught me to know my in the Air
In the waters and in the silent coverts
When through the forest the rages
Uprooting the giant pines which in fall
Crushing, drag down neighboring boughs and
Whose [growingly?] hollow thunder the hills
Then thou lead me to a sheltering cave
And revealest me to myself and bare
The deep mysterious of my Nature
And when the pure moon rises into
Soothingly above me, then about me
Creeping rocky walls and dewy thickets
Silver shadows, phantoms of a world
Which allay the austere joy of

Now do I realize that Man
Can never perfection
this ecstasy which brings me near and nearer
To the

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My mother the harlot put me to
My father the ate my flesh
My dear sister laid all my bones
In a dark shaded place under the
Then I into a wood-bird
Fluttering
Fly

Mankind, that Cosmos
acts as incomplete
He himself to Be
I am part of that which was the Absolute
A part of that Darkness gave birth to Light
The arrogant Light which dispute
rank of Mother Night
Therefore I hope it won't be before
With it shall perish evermore!

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Scatter the stars with a lavish
Water, fire, wall
Birds and beasts, all command
in our narrow booth today
Creation's ample scope
Wander swiftly, observing
From the Heavens to the

The World of is not barred to thee!

[Faust:] "So, still I seek the force, the governing life's flow, and not just its external show."
[Mephistopheles:] "The governing force? The Some things cannot be known; they are beyond your reach even when shown."
[Faust:] "Why that be so?"
[Mephistopheles:] "They lie outside the boundaries that words can address; and man can only grasp those which language can express."
[Faust:] "What? Do you mean that are greater yet than man?"
"Indeed they are."
[Faust:] "Then what of longing? Affection, pain or grief? I can't these, yet I know they are in my breast. What are they?""
"Without substance, as mist is."
[Faust:] "In that man is only air as well!"