Luyện nghe bài hát Faustian Echoes

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

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

I am the spirit that denies!
And justly so: for all that is
to be destroyed in scorn
Therefore 'twere best if were created
Destruction, sin, wickedness - plainly
All of you as evil have classified
That is my - there 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
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 Lucifer: say he surrenders up his soul. So that he shall spare him four and twenty years, letting him live in all voluptiousness, 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 reveal thy countenance 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 living
And taught me to know my in the Air
In the waters and in the silent coverts
When through the the storm rages
Uprooting the giant pines in their fall
Crushing, down neighboring boughs and trunks
Whose [growingly?] hollow shake the hills
Then thou dost lead me to a cave
And revealest me to myself and layest
The mysterious miracle of my Nature
And when the pure moon into sight
above me, then about me hover
Creeping from rocky walls and thickets
Silver shadows, phantoms of a world
Which the austere joy of meditation

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

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My the harlot put me to death
My the scoundrel ate my flesh
My dear sister laid all my bones
In a dark shaded place the stones
Then I changed into a
away
Fly

Mankind, that Cosmos
acts as incomplete
He thought to Be
I am part of part which was the Absolute
A part of that Darkness which gave to Light
The arrogant which would dispute
Ancient rank of Mother
Therefore I it won't be long before
With matter it shall evermore!

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Scatter the stars a lavish hand
Water, fire, wall
Birds and beasts, all within
Thus in our narrow today
ample scope display
Wander swiftly, observing
the Heavens to the World

The World of 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? Some things cannot be known; they are beyond your even when shown."
[Faust:] "Why should be so?"
[Mephistopheles:] "They lie outside the boundaries that words can address; and man can only grasp those which language can express."
"What? Do you mean that words are greater yet than man?"
[Mephistopheles:] "Indeed are."
[Faust:] "Then what of longing? Affection, 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!"