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
Behind desk how oft have I
At midnight seen thee high
O'er book and I bend
Thou didst appear, o friend

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

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Scatter the stars a lavish hand
Water, fire, tavern
and beasts, all within command
Thus in our narrow today
Creation's ample display
swiftly, observing well
the Heavens, to the World, to Hell!

The World of Spirits is not 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 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, hast given me all
All for which I thee, not in vain
thou reveal thy countenance in the fire
Thou hast given me for a kingdom
With the to enjoy and feel
Only a visit of bewilderment
Thou [then me?] bringest all the creatures
And me to know my brothers in the Air
In the deep waters and in the coverts
When through the the storm rages
Uprooting the giant pines in their fall
Crushing, down neighboring boughs and trunks
Whose [growingly?] thunder shake the hills
Then thou lead me to a sheltering cave
And revealest me to myself and bare
The deep mysterious miracle of my
And when the pure rises into sight
Soothingly me, then about me hover
Creeping from walls and dewy thickets
Silver shadows, of a bygone world
Which allay the joy of meditation

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

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My mother the put me to death
My father the ate my flesh
My dear little sister all my bones
In a dark shaded place the stones
Then I into a wood-bird
away
Fly

Mankind, that foolish
acts as incomplete
He thought to Be
I am part of that part which was the
A of that Darkness which gave birth to Light
The arrogant Light which dispute
Ancient rank of Night
Therefore I hope it won't be long
matter it shall perish evermore!

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

The of Spirits 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 The reason? Some things cannot be known; they are beyond your reach even when shown."
"Why should that be so?"
[Mephistopheles:] "They lie outside the boundaries that words can address; and man can only those thoughts which language can express."
[Faust:] "What? Do you that words are greater yet than man?"
"Indeed they are."
[Faust:] "Then what of longing? Affection, pain or I can't describe these, yet I know they are in my breast. What are they?""
[Mephistopheles:] "Without substance, as is."
[Faust:] "In that case man is air as well!"