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226 FAUST<br />

Then follow Ariel-follow swift­<br />

Your gui<strong>de</strong> to yon<strong>de</strong>r hill of roses.<br />

ORCHESTRA (pianissimo)<br />

Daylight I-the cloud· built stage-the wreaths<br />

Of vapour,-where are they?<br />

On reed and rush the free air breathes,<br />

And sweeps the dream away.<br />

A GLOOMY DA Y.-A PLAIN<br />

FAUST. In misery-in <strong>de</strong>spair-long wan<strong>de</strong>ring in<br />

wretchedness over the wi<strong>de</strong> world; and now taken up<br />

-shut up in the prison as a malefactor-this gentle.<br />

unhappy creature-for horrid tortures. To this-and<br />

has it come to this? Treacherous, worthless Spirit!<br />

and this hast thou been concealing from me! Stand,<br />

there, stand! Aye! roll the <strong>de</strong>vil eyes furiously round<br />

in thy head-aye! stand and <strong>de</strong>fy me with thy insup·<br />

portable presence. Taken up-in distress irretrievable<br />

-given over to evil spirits-abandoned to--manman<br />

that passes judgement, and is <strong>de</strong>void of feeling;<br />

and all this, while you have been lulling and rocking<br />

me and <strong>de</strong>luding me among loathsome dissipations,<br />

and hiding from me her continually increasing wretched·<br />

ness, and have left her to perish without help!<br />

MEPHISTOPHELES. She is not the first!<br />

FAUST. Dog! abhorred monster! turn him. ob,<br />

thou infinite Spirit, turn the reptile again into his dog's<br />

shape, in which it was often his pleasure to scamper<br />

before me by night, to roll before the feet of the unthink·<br />

ing passer· by, and as he fell to fasten on his shoul<strong>de</strong>rs.<br />

Turn him again into his darling shape, that he may<br />

crouch upon his belly before me in the sand, and that<br />

I may trample upon him with my foot-the outcast!<br />

Not the first! Misery-misery-by no human soul is<br />

it to be fathomed how more than one creature should<br />

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

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