Luyện nghe bài hát Faustian Echoes

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

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

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

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Scatter the stars with a hand
Water, fire, wall
Birds and beasts, all within
Thus in our booth today
Creation's ample scope
swiftly, observing well
the Heavens, to the World, to Hell!

The World of 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 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 which I thee, not in vain
Didst thou reveal thy in the fire
Thou hast given me for a kingdom
With the power to enjoy and
Only a of chilling bewilderment
Thou [then bringest all the living creatures
And taught me to my brothers in the Air
In the waters and in the silent coverts
When the forest the storm rages
Uprooting the pines which in their fall
Crushing, drag neighboring boughs and trunks
Whose [growingly?] hollow thunder the hills
Then thou dost me to a sheltering cave
And revealest me to myself and layest
The deep mysterious of my Nature
And the pure moon rises into sight
Soothingly above me, about me hover
Creeping from rocky walls and dewy
shadows, phantoms of a bygone world
Which allay the joy of meditation

Now fully do I realize Man
Can never possess
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 sister laid all my bones
In a dark shaded place under the
Then I changed into a
away
Fly

Mankind, that Cosmos
Always as incomplete
He himself to Be
I am part of that which was the Absolute
A part of that which gave birth to Light
The Light which would dispute
Ancient rank of Mother
I hope it won't be long before
With matter it perish evermore!

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Scatter the stars with a hand
Water, fire, tavern
Birds and beasts, all within
Thus in our booth today
Creation's ample display
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 force? The reason? Some things cannot be known; they are beyond your reach even when shown."
"Why should that be so?"
[Mephistopheles:] "They lie outside the boundaries that words can and man can only grasp those thoughts which language can express."
[Faust:] "What? Do you mean that are greater yet than man?"
"Indeed they are."
[Faust:] "Then what of Affection, pain or grief? I can't describe these, yet I know they are in my breast. What are they?""
[Mephistopheles:] "Without substance, as is."
[Faust:] "In that man is only air as well!"