Luyện nghe bài hát Faustian Echoes

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

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

I am the that ever denies!
And justly so: for all is born
Deserves to be destroyed in
Therefore 'twere best if nothing were
Destruction, sin, wickedness - plainly
All of which you as evil classified
That is my - there I abide

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Scatter the stars with a lavish
Water, fire, tavern
Birds and beasts, all within
Thus in our booth today
ample scope display
Wander swiftly, well
the Heavens, to the World, to Hell!

The World of is not barred to thee!

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

"I charge thee, Mephisto, wait upon me while I live... to do whatever Faustus shall command. Be it to make the moon 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 given me all
All for which I besought thee, not in
thou reveal thy countenance in the fire
Thou hast given me for a kingdom
With the to enjoy and feel
Only a visit of chilling
[then me?] bringest all the living creatures
And me to know my brothers in the Air
In the deep waters and in the silent
When through the forest the rages
the giant pines which in their fall
Crushing, drag down neighboring and trunks
Whose [growingly?] hollow thunder the hills
Then dost lead me to a sheltering cave
And revealest me to myself and layest
The mysterious miracle of my Nature
And when the pure rises into sight
Soothingly above me, then about me
Creeping from walls and dewy thickets
Silver shadows, phantoms of a world
Which allay the joy of meditation

Now fully do I realize Man
Can possess perfection
With this ecstasy which brings me near and
To the

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My the harlot put me to death
My father the ate my flesh
My dear little sister laid all my
In a dark shaded place under the
Then I changed into a
away
Fly

Mankind, that foolish
Always acts as
He himself to Be
I am of that part which was the Absolute
A part of Darkness which gave birth to Light
The arrogant Light which would
rank of Mother Night
Therefore I hope it be long before
With it shall perish evermore!

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Scatter the with a lavish hand
Water, fire, tavern
Birds and beasts, all within
in our narrow booth today
Creation's ample scope
swiftly, observing well
From the Heavens to the

The of Spirits is not barred to thee!

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