Luyện nghe bài hát Faustian Echoes

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

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

I am the spirit ever denies!
And justly so: for all that is
to be destroyed in scorn
Therefore 'twere best if nothing were
Destruction, sin, wickedness - stated
All of you as evil have classified
That is my element - there I

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Scatter the with a lavish hand
Water, fire, wall
Birds and beasts, all within
in our narrow booth today
Creation's ample display
Wander swiftly, observing
the Heavens, to the World, to Hell!

The of Spirits is not barred to thee!

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

"I charge 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 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 thee, not in vain
Didst thou thy countenance in the fire
Thou hast me Nature for a kingdom
With the to enjoy and feel
Only a visit of chilling
[then me?] bringest all the living creatures
And taught me to my brothers in the Air
In the waters and in the silent coverts
through the forest the storm rages
Uprooting the giant which in their fall
Crushing, down neighboring boughs and trunks
Whose [growingly?] thunder shake the hills
Then thou dost me to a sheltering cave
And revealest me to myself and bare
The deep mysterious miracle of my
And when the pure moon rises sight
Soothingly me, then about me hover
Creeping from rocky walls and thickets
Silver shadows, of a bygone world
Which the austere joy of meditation

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

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My mother the put me to death
My father the scoundrel ate my
My dear little sister all my bones
In a dark shaded place under the
Then I into a wood-bird
away
Fly

Mankind, foolish Cosmos
Always acts as
He thought to Be
I am of that part which was the Absolute
A of that Darkness which gave birth to Light
The arrogant Light which dispute
Ancient 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
Thus in our narrow today
Creation's scope display
Wander swiftly, well
From the Heavens to the

The World of is not barred to thee!

[Faust:] "So, still I the force, the reason governing life's flow, and not just its external show."
[Mephistopheles:] "The governing force? The reason? Some things cannot be known; they are beyond your reach when shown."
[Faust:] "Why that be so?"
[Mephistopheles:] "They lie outside the boundaries that words can address; and man can only those thoughts which language can express."
[Faust:] "What? Do you mean that are greater yet than man?"
[Mephistopheles:] "Indeed 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?""
[Mephistopheles:] "Without substance, as is."
[Faust:] "In case man is only air as well!"