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MARTHA'S GARDEN<br />

189<br />

The women fancy, and the fact is<br />

COnfirmed, or often so, in practice,<br />

That their admirers are most found<br />

Where your religious men abound-<br />

Love is almost the same emotion:<br />

The <strong>de</strong>votee-such is their notion­<br />

Thus for the sex feels true <strong>de</strong>votion,<br />

Courts amorous thoughta and mystic dreaming,<br />

Is led by priests, and follows women.<br />

FAUST. Oh! what a monster must thou be,<br />

To see not, or with scoffing see,<br />

How this poor girl's affections lead<br />

The pious creature thus to plead;<br />

The faith, in which she moves and lives­<br />

That which alone salvation gives-<br />

So she believes-may make her fear<br />

:!?anger to one whom she holds <strong>de</strong>ar;<br />

.L'ear for the issue of a strife<br />

Where more, she feels, is risked than life!<br />

:MEPIDSTOPHELES. Most sentimental sl"nsualist,<br />

-L Philosopher at once and beast,­<br />

ed by the nose by a young flirt !<br />

FAUST. Abortion-spawn of fire and dirt!<br />

:MEPIDSTOPHELES (swrnfully).-On Physiognomy she<br />

also lectures<br />

Profoundly-feels, when I am present,<br />

Sensations strange and most unpleasant:<br />

ISuppressed malignity my smile betrays;<br />

Wear a mask, forsooth, I will not raise,<br />

~d what it hi<strong>de</strong>s she sapiently conjectures,<br />

Ornething mvsteriously allied to evil,<br />

~ genius-or; perhaps, the very <strong>de</strong>vil.<br />

O·night then.<br />

FAUST.<br />

What's to.night to thee?<br />

:MEPlIISTOPHELES. I've my amusements too-we'll<br />

see.<br />

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

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