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
Behind this how oft have I
At midnight seen thee high
O'er book and paper I
Thou didst appear, o mournful

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

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

The of Spirits is not barred to thee!

[Mephistopheles:] "Now then, Faustus. What wouldst thou have 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 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 besought thee, not in
Didst reveal thy countenance in the fire
Thou hast given me Nature for a
With the power to and feel
a visit of chilling bewilderment
Thou [then me?] bringest all the creatures
And taught me to know my in the Air
In the deep waters and in the coverts
When the forest the storm rages
Uprooting the giant pines which in fall
Crushing, drag neighboring boughs and trunks
[growingly?] hollow thunder shake 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
above me, then about me hover
Creeping from rocky walls and thickets
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 harlot put me to
My father the scoundrel ate my
My little sister laid all my bones
In a shaded place under the stones
I changed into a wood-bird
Fluttering
Fly

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

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Scatter the stars a lavish hand
Water, fire, tavern
and beasts, all within command
Thus in our booth today
Creation's scope display
swiftly, observing well
From the Heavens to the

The World of Spirits is not to thee!

[Faust:] "So, I seek 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 even when shown."
"Why should that be so?"
[Mephistopheles:] "They lie outside the boundaries that words can address; and man can only grasp those thoughts which can express."
[Faust:] "What? Do you mean that words are greater yet man?"
[Mephistopheles:] "Indeed are."
[Faust:] "Then what of longing? Affection, pain or grief? I can't describe these, yet I know are in my breast. What are they?""
"Without substance, as mist is."
[Faust:] "In that man is only air as well!"