Faust — Part 1 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
page 90 of 274 (32%)
page 90 of 274 (32%)
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Upon your honoured brow to heap;
The lion's magnanimity, The fleetness of the hind, The fiery blood of Italy, The Northern's stedfast mind. Let him to you the mystery show To blend high aims and cunning low; And while youth's passions are aflame To fall in love by rule and plan! I fain would meet with such a man; Would him Sir Microcosmus name. FAUST What then am I, if I aspire in vain The crown of our humanity to gain, Towards which my every sense doth strain? MEPHISTOPHELES Thou'rt after all--just what thou art. Put on thy head a wig with countless locks, And to a cubit's height upraise thy socks, Still thou remainest ever, what thou art. FAUST I feel it, I have heap'd upon my brain The gather'd treasure of man's thought in vain; And when at length from studious toil I rest, |
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