The Second Part of Goethe's Faust Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: Routledge Subjects: German drama Drama / Continental European Literary Criticism / European / German Literary Criticism / Drama Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missi... more »ng text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Hegemone. And gracefully be still received The granted wish -- the want relieved. JLuphrosyne. And graceful be the tone subdued, And home-felt charm of gratitude. Enter The Pauc/e. Atropos. I, the eldest, am invited At this festival to spin -- Much for you and me to think of In this tender life-thread thin. That the threads be soft and pliant, Must the fla'x be sifted fine; And, that they flow smooth and even, Fingers skilled must press the twine. If, at revels or at dances, Blood beats high; oh ! then let wake Caution. Think how short the measure: Think that the frail thread may break. Clotho. Be It Known, to me the scissors, In these last days, they confide: By the late Administration, None were pleased or edified. Husky yarns the dull old woman Left to drawl a weary time ; Clearest threads, of brilliant promise, She cut off in youthful prime. Of impatient inexperience, That might make me go astray, Danger now is none. My scissors, In the sheath remain to-day. Glad am I that, thus made powerless, I can smile on all I see; That, all apprehension banished, You may dance and revel free. Laclusis. Happy maintenance of order To the sagest was decreed : Mine the wheel that ceases never, Circling still with equal speed. Threads flow hither, threads flow thither, And their course my fingers guide : None must overpass the circle -- Each must in its place abide. I -- should I a moment slumber -- Tremble...« less