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106 FAUST<br />

Fla.me still is mine-I've kept thalr-Flame alone,<br />

Else were there nothing specially my own.<br />

FAUST. Is it thou ?-thou standing there ?-thou<br />

to resist<br />

The healthful energy, the animation,<br />

The force that moves and moulds, and is creation­<br />

In vain spite clenching that cold <strong>de</strong>vil's fist?<br />

Strange son of Chaos this may well move laughter.<br />

MEPUISTOPHELES. Well-this point we may talk<br />

about hereafter-<br />

But now, with your permission, I would go.<br />

FAUST. That you can, whether I permit or no,<br />

Wby ask me? Now that you have found your way,<br />

I hope to see you often here. Good day !--<br />

This is the window-that the door-and yon<strong>de</strong>r<br />

The chimney. Why thus stare about and pon<strong>de</strong>r?<br />

MEPHISTOPHELES. I am not free: a little obstacle,<br />

I did not see, confines me to your cell,-<br />

The druid foot upon the threshold traced.<br />

FAUST. The pentagram?-is it not to your taste?<br />

But, son of hell, if this in<strong>de</strong>ed be so,<br />

How came you in, I should be glad to know,­<br />

How was it, that the charm no earlier wrought?<br />

MEPHISTOPIIELES. The lines were not as perfect as<br />

they ought:<br />

The outer angle's incomplete.<br />

FAUST. 'Vell-'twas a pleasant evening's feat­<br />

A most unlooked·for acci<strong>de</strong>nt-<br />

Strange prize, and yet more strangely sent.<br />

MEPHISTOPHELES. The dog, without perceiving it,<br />

Leaped in-the <strong>de</strong>vil has somehow<br />

Seen it-is in the house-and now<br />

Can find no way of leaving it.<br />

FAUST. Why not the window?<br />

MEPHISTOPHELES. Why?-becauso<br />

It is enacted in the laws<br />

Which bind us <strong>de</strong>vils and phantoms, 'that<br />

Whatever point we enter at,<br />

We a.t the sa.me return' :-thus we<br />

In our first choice are ever free j-<br />

<strong>©Biblioteca</strong> <strong>Nacional</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Colombia</strong>

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