©Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia
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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 />
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