Luyện nghe bài hát Faustian Echoes

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

O growing Moon, thou but shine
A time on this pain of mine
Behind desk how oft have I
At midnight seen thee rising
book and paper I bend
Thou appear, o mournful friend

I am the spirit that denies!
And so: for all that is born
Deserves to be destroyed in
Therefore 'twere best if 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
and beasts, all within command
Thus in our booth today
Creation's ample display
Wander swiftly, observing
the Heavens, to the World, to Hell!

The World of 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 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 me whatsoever I shall ask."

"I will."

Sublime spirit, thou hast me all
All for I besought thee, not in vain
thou reveal thy countenance in the fire
Thou hast me Nature for a kingdom
the power to enjoy 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 deep waters and in the silent
When through the the storm rages
Uprooting the giant pines which in their
Crushing, down neighboring boughs and trunks
Whose [growingly?] hollow thunder the hills
Then thou dost me to a sheltering cave
And revealest me to myself and bare
The deep miracle of my Nature
And when the pure moon rises sight
Soothingly me, then about me hover
from rocky walls and dewy thickets
Silver shadows, of a bygone world
allay the austere joy of meditation

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

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

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

The World of is not barred 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 your reach even when shown."
"Why should that be so?"
[Mephistopheles:] "They lie outside the boundaries that words can address; and man can only grasp thoughts which language 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 describe these, yet I know they are in my breast. What are they?""
[Mephistopheles:] "Without substance, as is."
[Faust:] "In case man is only air as well!"