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faust-第7部分
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thousand forms prepare! They drive impetuous from the frozen north; With
fangs sharp … piercing; and keen arrowy tongues; From the ungenial east they
issue forth; And prey; with parching breath; upon thy lungs; If; waft'd on the
desert's flaming wing; They from the south heap fire upon the brain;
Refreshment from the west at first they bring; Anon to drown thyself and field
and plain。 In wait for mischief; they are prompt to hear; With guileful purpose
our behests obey; Like ministers of grace they oft appear; And lisp like
angels; to betray。 But let us hence! Grey eve doth all things blend; The air
grows chill; the mists descend! 'Tis in the evening first our home we prize Why
stand you thus; and gaze with wondering eyes? What in the gloom thus moves
you?
Faust
Yon black hound See'st thou; through corn and stubble scampering round?
Wagner
I've mark'd him long; naught strange in him I see!
Faust
Note him! What takest thou the brute to be?
Wagner
But for a poodle; whom his instinct serves His master's track to find once
more。
Faust
Dost mark how round us; with wide spiral curves; He wheels; each circle
closer than before? And; if I err not; he appears to me A line of fire upon his
track to leave。
Wagner
Naught but a poodle black of hue I see; 'Tis some illusion doth your sight
deceive。
Faust
Methinks a magic coil our feet around; He for a future snare doth lightly
spread。
Wagner
Around us as in doubt I see him shyly bound; Since he two strangers seeth in
his master's stead。
Faust
The circle narrows; he's already near!
Wagner
A dog dost see; no spectre have we here; He growls; doubts; lays him on his
belly; too; And wags his tail … as dogs are wont to do。
Faust
Come hither; Sirrah! join our company!
Wagner
A very poodle; he appears to be! Thou standest still; for thee he'll wait; Thou
speak'st to him; he fawns upon thee straight; Aught thou mayst lose; again he'll
bring; And for thy stick will into water spring。
Faust
Thou'rt right indeed; no traces now I see Whatever of a spirit's agency。 'Tis
training … nothing more。
Wagner
A dog well taught E'en by the wisest of us may be sought。 Ay; to your favour
he's entitled too; Apt scholar of the students; 'tis his due! (They enter the gate
of the town。)
Faust Meets With Mephistopheles
Study
Faust (entering with the poodle)
Now field and meadow I've forsaken; O'er them deep night her veil doth
draw; In us the better soul doth waken; With feelings of foreboding awe; All
lawless promptings; deeds unholy; Now slumber; and all wild desires; The
love of man doth sway us wholly; And love to God the soul inspires。
Peace; poodle; peace! Scamper not thus; obey me! Why at the threshold
snuffest thou so? Behind the stove now quietly lay thee; My softest cushion to
thee I'll throw。 As thou; without; didst please and amuse me Running and
frisking about on the hill; So tendance now I will not refuse thee; A welcome
guest; if thou'lt be still。
Ah! when the friendly taper gloweth; Once more within our narrow cell; Then
in the heart itself that knoweth; A light the darkness doth dispel。 Reason her
voice resumes; returneth Hope's gracious bloom; with promise rife; For
streams of life the spirit yearneth; Ah! for the very fount of life。
Poodle; snarl not! with the tone that arises; Hallow'd and peaceful; my soul
within; Accords not thy growl; thy bestial din。 We find it not strange; that man
despises What he conceives not; That he the good and fair misprizes Finding
them often beyond his ken; Will the dog snarl at them like men?
But ah! Despite my will; it stands confessed; Contentment welleth up no
longer in my breast。 Yet wherefore must the stream; alas; so soon be dry;
That we once more athirst should lie? Full oft this sad experience hath been
mine; Nathless the want admits of compensation; For things above the earth
we learn to pine; Our spirits yearn for revelation; Which nowhere burns with
purer beauty blent; Than here in the New Testament。 To ope the ancient text
an impulse strong Impels me; and its sacred lore; With honest purpose to
explore; And render into my love German tongue。
(He opens a volume; and applies himself to it。)
'Tis writ; 〃In the beginning was the Word!〃 I pause; perplex'd! Who now will
help afford? I cannot the mere Word so highly prize; I must translate it
otherwise; If by the spirit guided as I read。 〃In the beginning was the Sense!〃
Take heed; The import of this primal sentence weigh; Lest thy too hasty pen
be led astray! Is force creative then of Sense the dower? 〃In the beginning
was the Power!〃 Thus should it stand: yet; while the line I trace; A something
warns me; once more to efface。 The spirit aids! from anxious scruples freed; I
write; 〃In the beginning was the Deed!〃
Am I with thee my room to share; Poodle; thy barking now forbear; Forbear
thy howling! Comrade so noisy; ever growling; I cannot suffer here to dwell。
One or the other; mark me well; Forthwith must leave the cell。 I'm loath the
guest … right to withhold; The door's ajar; the passage clear; But what must
now mine eyes behold! Are nature's laws suspended here? Real is it; or a
phantom show? In length and breadth how doth my poodle grow! He lifts
himself with threat'ning mien; In likeness of a dog no longer seen! What
spectre have I harbour'd thus! Huge as a hippopotamus; With fiery eye;
terrific tooth! Ah! now I know thee; sure enough! For such a base; half …
hellish brood; The key of Solomon is good。
Spirits (without)
Captur'd there within is one! Stay without and follow none! Like a fox in iron
snare; Hell's old lynx is quaking there;
But take heed! Hover round; above; below;
To and fro; Then from durance is he freed! Can ye aid him; spirits all; Leave
him not in mortal thrall! Many a time and oft hath he Served us; when at
liberty。
Faust
The monster to confront; at first; The spell of Four must be rehears'd;
Salamander shall kindle; Writhe nymph of the wave; In air sylph shall dwindle;
And Kobold shall slave。
Who doth ignore The primal Four; Nor knows aright Their use and might;
O'er spirits will he Ne'er master be!
Vanish in the fiery glow; Salamander! Rushingly together flow。 Undine!
Shimmer in the meteor's gleam; Sylphide! Hither bring thine homely aid;
Incubus! Incubus! Step forth! I do adjure thee thus! None of the Four Lurks
in the beast: He grins at me; untroubled as before; I have not hurt him in the
least。 A spell of fear Thou now shalt hear。 Art thou; comrade fell; Fugitive
from Hell? See then this sign; Before which incline The murky troops of Hell!
With bristling hair now doth the creature swell。
Canst thou; reprobate; Read the uncreate; Unspeakable; diffused Throughout
the heavenly sphere; Shamefully abused; Transpierced with nail and spear!
Behind the stove; tam'd by my spells; Like an elephant he swells; Wholly now
he fills the room; He into mist will melt away。 Ascend not to the ceiling!
Come; Thyself at the master's feet now lay! Thou seest that mine is no idle
threat。 With holy fire I will scorch thee yet! Wait not the might That lies in the
triple … glowing light! Wait not the might Of all my arts in fullest measure!
Mephistopheles
(As the mist sinks; comes forward from behind the stove; in the dress of a
travelling scholar) Why all this uproar? What's the master's pleasure?
Faust
This then the kernel of the brute! A traveling scholar? Why I needs must
smile。
Mephistopheles
Your learned reverence humbly I salute! You've made me swelter in a pretty
style。
Faust
Thy name?
Mephistopheles
The question trifling seems from one; Who it appears the Word doth rate so
low; Who; undeluded by mere outward show; To Being's depths would
penetrate alone。
Faust
With gentlemen like you indeed The inward essence from the name we read;
As all too plainly it doth appear; When Beelzebub; Destroyer; Liar; meets the
ear。 Who then art thou?
Mephistopheles
Part of that power which still Produceth good; whilst ever scheming ill。
Faust
What hidden mystery in this riddle lies?
Mephistopheles
The spirit I; which evermore denies! And justly; for whate'er to light is brought
Deserves again to be reduced to naught; Then better 'twere that naught should
be。 Thus all the elements which ye Destruction; Sin; or briefly; Evil; name; As
my peculiar element I claim。
Faust
Thou nam'st thyself a part; and yet a whole I see。
Mephistopheles
The modest truth I speak to thee。 Though folly's microcosm; man; it seems;
Himself to be a perfect whole esteems: Part of the part am I; which at the first
was all; A part of darkness; which gave birth to light; Proud light; who now
his mother would enthrall; Contesting space and ancient rank with night。 Yet
he succeedeth not; for struggle as he will; To forms material he adhereth still;
From them he streameth; them he maketh fair; And still the progress of his
beams they check; And so; I trust; when comes the final wreck; Light will; ere
long; the doom of matter share。
Faust
Thy worthy avocation now I guess! Wholesale annihilation won't prevail; So
thou'rt beginning on a smaller scale。
Mephistopheles
And; to say truth; as yet with small success。 Oppos'd to naught; this clumsy
world; The something … it subsisteth still; Not yet is it to ruin hurl'd; Despite
the efforts of my will。 Tempests and earthquakes; fire and flood; I've tried;
Yet land and ocean still unchang'd abide! And then of humankind and beasts;
the accursed brood; Neither o'er them can I extend my sway。 What countless
myriads have I swept away! Yet ever circulates the fresh young blood。 It is
eno
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