©Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia
©Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia
©Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia
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82 FAUST<br />
On thee-the pain subsi<strong>de</strong>s-the weight<br />
That pressed me down less heavy weighs.<br />
I grasp thee-faithful friend art thou:<br />
Already do I feel the strife<br />
That preyed upon my powers of life<br />
Calmed into peace; and now-a.nd now<br />
The swell, that troubled the clear spring<br />
Of my vext spirit, ebbs away;<br />
Outspread, like ocean, Life and Day<br />
Shine with a glow of welcoming ;-<br />
Calm at my feet the glorious mirror lies,<br />
And tempts to far-off shores, with smiles from other skies !<br />
And, lo! a car of fire to me<br />
Gli<strong>de</strong>s softly hither; from within<br />
Come winged impulses, to bear<br />
The child of earth to freer air:<br />
Already do I seem to win<br />
My happy course, from bondage free,<br />
On paths unknown, to climes unknown<br />
Glad spheres of pure activity!<br />
Powers yet unfelt-worlds yet untrod<br />
And life, poured everywhere abroad,<br />
And rapture worthy of a God!<br />
-Worm that thou art, and can it be<br />
Such joy is thine, is given to thee?<br />
Determine only,-'tis thy own;<br />
Say thy firm farewell to the sun,<br />
The kindly sun-its smiling earth-<br />
One moment, one,-and all is done.<br />
One pang-then comes the second birth!<br />
-Find life where others fear to die;<br />
Take measure of thy strength, and burat<br />
Burst wi<strong>de</strong> the gate of liberty;<br />
-Show, by man's acts man's spirit durst<br />
Meet God's own eye, and wax not dim ;<br />
Stand fearless, face to face with Him!<br />
Shud<strong>de</strong>r not now at that blank cave<br />
Where, in sclf-t{)rturing disease,<br />
<strong>©Biblioteca</strong> <strong>Nacional</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Colombia</strong>