Luyện nghe bài hát Faustian Echoes

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

O growing Moon, didst but shine
A last time on pain of mine
Behind this desk how oft I
At seen thee rising high
O'er 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 if nothing were created
Destruction, sin, wickedness - stated
All of which you as evil have
is my element - 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
ample scope 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 thou have do?"

"I charge thee, Mephisto, wait upon me 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 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
Thou hast given me for a kingdom
the power to enjoy and feel
Only a visit of chilling
Thou me?] bringest all the living creatures
And me to know my brothers in the Air
In the deep and in the silent coverts
When through the the storm rages
Uprooting the giant which in their fall
Crushing, drag neighboring boughs and trunks
Whose [growingly?] hollow thunder the hills
Then dost lead me to a sheltering cave
And me to myself and layest bare
The deep mysterious of my Nature
And the pure moon rises into sight
above me, then about me hover
Creeping from rocky and dewy thickets
Silver shadows, of a bygone world
Which allay the joy of meditation

Now fully do I realize Man
Can never possess
this ecstasy which brings me near and nearer
To the

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

Mankind, foolish Cosmos
acts as incomplete
He thought to Be
I am part of that part was the Absolute
A part of Darkness which gave birth to Light
The arrogant Light which dispute
Ancient of Mother Night
Therefore I hope it be long before
With matter it perish evermore!

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Scatter the stars with a hand
Water, fire, wall
and beasts, all within command
Thus in our narrow today
Creation's ample 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 just its show."
[Mephistopheles:] "The governing force? The Some things cannot be known; they are beyond your reach even when shown."
[Faust:] "Why that be so?"
[Mephistopheles:] "They lie outside the that words can address; and man can only grasp those thoughts which language can express."
[Faust:] "What? Do you mean that words are yet than man?"
"Indeed they 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!"