Luyện nghe bài hát Faustian Echoes

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

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

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

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Scatter the stars a lavish hand
Water, fire, tavern
Birds and beasts, all command
Thus in our booth today
Creation's scope display
Wander swiftly, well
the Heavens, to the World, to Hell!

The of Spirits 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 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 given me all
All for which I besought thee, not in
Didst thou reveal thy in the fire
hast given me Nature for a kingdom
With the power to and feel
Only a of chilling bewilderment
Thou [then me?] bringest all the creatures
And me to know my brothers in the Air
In the deep and in the silent coverts
through the forest the storm rages
Uprooting the giant pines in their fall
Crushing, drag down boughs and trunks
Whose [growingly?] hollow thunder shake the
Then thou lead me to a sheltering cave
And revealest me to and layest bare
The deep miracle of my Nature
And when the pure moon rises sight
Soothingly me, then about me hover
Creeping from walls and dewy thickets
Silver shadows, phantoms of a bygone
Which allay the joy of meditation

Now fully do I realize Man
Can possess perfection
With 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 little sister laid all my bones
In a dark place under the stones
I changed into a wood-bird
Fluttering
Fly

Mankind, that Cosmos
Always acts as
He thought to Be
I am of that part which was the Absolute
A part of that Darkness which gave birth to
The Light which would dispute
Ancient of Mother Night
Therefore I hope it be long before
matter 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 booth today
Creation's ample scope
Wander swiftly, observing
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 its external show."
[Mephistopheles:] "The governing force? The reason? things cannot be known; they are beyond your reach even when shown."
[Faust:] "Why that be so?"
[Mephistopheles:] "They lie outside the boundaries words can address; and man can only grasp 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 describe these, yet I know they are in my breast. What are they?""
"Without substance, as mist is."
[Faust:] "In case man is only air as well!"