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Faust, a tragedy, tr. into Engl. verse by J. Hills
Faust a tragedy tr into Engl verse by J Hills Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Faust enters with the Poodle, Faust. From field and valley, I am come, Where Night her sombre shades had spread; Waking, mid that mysterious gloom, ... more »Our better soul to holy dread ! All wild, inordinate desires, All stormy acts, to silence awed! The love of our own kind now stirs, Within us stirs the love of God ! Poodle, be quiet—fidget not thus about, Why art snuffling so at the sill of the door ? Behind the stove there stretch thee ont, On my hest cushion !—what wonldst thou more ? As thou hast, in our mountain rambles, With running and bounding amused us and pleased, So now, in-doors, have done with thy gambols, And welcome be, if a quiet guest! Ah, when within our cell confined, Once more the cheering taper glows, Then all is bright too in the mind, And in the heart itself that knows ! Reason once more begins to speak, Hope, to put forth her blossomings; We long the streams of life to seek, Yea, even to life's primal springs ! Growl not, Poodle!—with the tones all holy, That now fill full my inmost being, That bestial noise is ill agreeing ! We know indeed that men deride as folly What they not understand— At the Good and Beautiful—unto the Soul Oft wearisome—are wont to growl! These—will this dog, like them—behowl ? But ah ! I feel, tho' striving all my best, No more content will well within this breast!— Yet wherefore hath the stream so soon gone dry, And left me in that torturing thirst to lie, Wherewith I so oft before was burning ? Yet is there that which well this want supplies ; Now learn we heavenly things to prize, For Revelation are we yearning ! Which nought to us in such clear light hath sent, And kindling words, as the New Testament. To ope the primitive text I now do long ! And with feelings, ...« less