Luyện nghe bài hát Faustian Echoes

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

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

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

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Scatter the stars with a hand
Water, fire, tavern
Birds and beasts, all within
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!

"Now then, Faustus. What wouldst thou have 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 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, hast given me all
All for which I thee, not in vain
Didst thou thy countenance in the fire
Thou hast given me Nature for a
With the power to enjoy and
Only a visit of chilling
Thou [then me?] bringest all the creatures
And me to know my brothers in the Air
In the deep waters and in the silent
When through the forest the rages
Uprooting the pines which in their fall
Crushing, drag down neighboring and trunks
Whose hollow thunder shake the hills
Then thou dost lead me to a sheltering
And revealest me to myself and layest
The deep mysterious miracle of my
And the pure moon rises into sight
Soothingly above me, then me hover
from rocky walls and dewy thickets
Silver shadows, phantoms of a world
Which allay the joy of meditation

Now fully do I realize Man
Can never perfection
With this ecstasy 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 little sister laid all my bones
In a dark shaded under the stones
Then I into a wood-bird
Fluttering
Fly

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

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Scatter the stars with a hand
Water, fire, wall
Birds and beasts, all within
Thus in our booth today
Creation's scope display
Wander swiftly, well
From the Heavens to the

The World of is not barred to thee!

[Faust:] "So, still I seek the force, the governing life's flow, and not just its external show."
[Mephistopheles:] "The governing force? The reason? Some things cannot be known; they are beyond your even when shown."
[Faust:] "Why 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 words are greater yet than man?"
"Indeed they are."
[Faust:] "Then what of longing? Affection, pain or grief? I can't describe these, yet I know are in my breast. What are they?""
[Mephistopheles:] "Without substance, as is."
[Faust:] "In that case man is air as well!"