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FAUST'S STUDY<br />

The withered spirit seeks in vain<br />

Health and refreshment to obtain­<br />

What need of seal and signature<br />

In blood, such spirit to secure?<br />

123<br />

STUDENT enters.<br />

11 STUDENT. I am but just arrived-your name<br />

!lly chief attraction; and I came<br />

.At once,-forgive my strong <strong>de</strong>sire<br />

To see and speak to him, whose fame<br />

lIas spread so far-whom all admire.<br />

MEPmSTOPHELES. Fame has been most obliging,<br />

then:<br />

You see a man like other men-<br />

~id you seek farther, you might meet<br />

bier instructors.<br />

STUDENT. I entreat<br />

lour care and counsel-with a gui<strong>de</strong><br />

.vhere could I better be supplied?<br />

i COme with heart and spirits free,<br />

nd youth-and the professor's fee.<br />

~y mother scarce would let me come;<br />

ut I love learning more than homelIave<br />

for improYement travelled far-­<br />

l\lEPmsToPHELES. And in the best place for it are,<br />

I STUDENT. And yet, if I the truth may say,<br />

Would I were again away:<br />

~~lls like these, and halh like these,<br />

T Ill, I fear, in no wise please!<br />

Je narrow gloom of this cold room,<br />

-,., here nothing green is ever seen;<br />

~~o lawn-no tree-no floweret's bloomliong<br />

benches, books, my heart is sinking,<br />

I nd my wasted senses shrinking-<br />

E mOUrn the hour that I came hither;<br />

Thf and eye, and hea.rt will die,<br />

ought, and the power of thought, will wither.<br />

lJ ME.P~STOPHELES. This is all custom: as at first<br />

nWlllingly the young child sips<br />

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

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