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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 />
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