Luyện nghe bài hát Faustian Echoes

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

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

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

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Scatter the with a lavish hand
Water, fire, tavern
and beasts, all within command
Thus in our narrow booth
Creation's ample display
Wander swiftly, well
the Heavens, to the World, to Hell!

The of Spirits is not barred to thee!

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

"I charge thee, Mephisto, wait upon me while I live... to do whatever Faustus shall command. Be it to make the 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 thee, not in vain
Didst thou thy countenance in the fire
Thou hast given me for a kingdom
With the power to enjoy and
a visit of chilling bewilderment
Thou [then me?] bringest all the living
And taught me to my brothers in the Air
In the waters and in the silent coverts
When through the forest the rages
the giant pines which in their fall
Crushing, down neighboring boughs and trunks
Whose [growingly?] hollow shake the hills
Then thou lead me to a sheltering cave
And me to myself and layest bare
The deep miracle of my Nature
And when the pure moon rises sight
Soothingly above me, about me hover
Creeping from rocky walls and thickets
Silver shadows, of a bygone world
Which allay the austere joy of

Now do I realize that 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 ate my flesh
My little sister laid all my bones
In a shaded place under the stones
Then I changed into a
away
Fly

Mankind, that Cosmos
acts as incomplete
He thought to Be
I am part of that part which was the
A of that 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 stars with a hand
Water, fire, wall
and beasts, all within command
Thus in our booth today
Creation's scope display
swiftly, observing well
From the to the World

The World of is not barred to thee!

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