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faust(浮士德)-第4部分

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   A wondrous show! but ah! a show alone! Where shall I grasp thee; infinite
   nature; where? Ye breasts; ye fountains of all life; whereon Hang heaven and
   earth; from which the withered heart For solace yearns; ye still impart Your
   sweet and fostering tides … where are ye … where? Ye gush; and must I
   languish in despair?
   (He turns over the leaves of the book impatiently; and perceives the sigh of
   the Earth … spirit。)
   How all unlike the influence of this sign! Earth … spirit; thou to me art nigher;
   E'en now my strength is rising higher; E'en now I glow as with new wine;
   Courage I feel; abroad the world to dare; The woe of earth; the bliss of earth
   to bear; With storms to wrestle; brave the lightning's glare; And mid the
   crashing shipwreck not despair。
   Clouds gather over me The moon conceals her light The lamp is quench'd
   Vapours are rising … Quiv'ring round my head Flash the red beams … Down
   from the vaulted roof A shuddering horror floats; And seizes me! I feel it;
   spirit; prayer … compell'd; 'tis thou Art hovering near! Unveil thyself! Ha! How
   my heart is riven now! Each sense; with eager palpitation; Is strain'd to catch
   some new sensation! I feel my heart surrender'd unto thee! Thou must! Thou
   must! Though life should be the fee!
   (He seizes the book; and pronounces mysteriously the sign of the spirit。 A
   ruddy flame flashes up; the spirit appears in the flame。)
     Spirit
   Who calls me?
   Faust (turning aside) Dreadful shape! Spirit
   With might;
   Thou hast compelled me to appear; Long hast been sucking at my sphere;
   And now 
   Dr。 Johann Faust: Dr。 Johann Faust watching a magic disc in his study。
   Engraving by Rembrant。'
   Faust
   Woe's me! I cannot bear thy sight!
   Spirit
   To see me thou dost breathe thine invocation; My voice to hear; to gaze upon
   my brow; Me doth thy strong entreaty bow Lo! I am here! … What cowering
   agitation Grasps thee; the demigod! Where's now the soul's deep cry? Where
   is the breast; which in its depths a world conceiv'd And bore and cherished?
   which; with ecstacy; To rank itself with us; the spirits; heaved? Where art
   thou; Faust? whose voice I heard resound; Who towards me press'd with
   energy profound? Art thou he? Thou; … who by my breath art blighted; Who;
   in his spirit's depths affrighted; Trembles; a crush'd and writhing worm!
   Faust
   Shall I yield; thing of flame; to thee? Faust; and thine equal; I am he!
   Spirit
     In the currents of life; in action's storm; I float and I wave With billowy
   motion! Birth and the grave A limitless ocean; A constant weaving With
   change still rife; A restless heaving; A glowing life Thus time's whirring loom
   unceasing I ply; And weave the life … garment of deity。
   Faust
   Thou; restless spirit; dost from end to end O'ersweep the world; how near I
   feel to thee!
   Spirit
   Thou'rt like the spirit; thou dost comprehend; Not me!
   (Vanishes。)
   Faust (deeply moved)
   Not thee? Whom then? I; Gods own image! And not rank with thee!
   (A knock)
   Oh death! I know it … 'tis my famulus My fairest fortune now escapes! That all
   these visionary shapes A soulless groveller should banish thus!
   (Wagner in his dressing gown and night … cap; a lamp in his hand。 Faust turns
   round reluctantly。)
   Wagner
   Pardon! I heard you here declaim; A Grecian tragedy you doubtless read?
   Improvement in this art is now my aim; For now … a … days it much avails。
   Indeed An actor; oft I've heard it said; as teacher; May give instruction to a
   preacher。
     Faust
   Ay; if your priest should be an actor too; As not improbably may come to
   pass。
   Wagner
   When in his study pent the whole year through; Man views the world; as
   through an optic glass; On a chance holiday; and scarcely then; How by
   persuasion can he govern men?
   Faust
   If feeling prompt not; if it doth not flow Fresh from the spirit's depths; with
   strong control Swaying to rapture every listener's soul; Idle your toil; the
   chase you may forego! Brood o'er your task! Together glue; Cook from
   another's feast your own ragout; Still prosecute your paltry game; And fan
   your ash … heaps into flame! Thus children's wonder you'll excite; And apes'; if
   such your appetite; But that which issues from the heart alone; Will bend the
   hearts of others to your own。
   Wagner
   The speaker in delivery will find Success alone; I still am far behind。
   Faust
   A worthy object still pursue! Be not a hollow tinkling fool! Sound
   understanding; judgment true; Find utterance without art or rule; And when in
   earnest you are moved to speak; Then is it needful cunning words to seek?
   Your fine harangues; so polish'd in their kind; Wherein the shreds of human
   thought ye twist; Are unrefreshing as the empty wind; Whistling through
   wither'd leaves and autumn mist!
   Wagner
   Oh God! How long is art; Our life how short! With earnest zeal Still as I ply
   the critic's task; I feel A strange oppression both of head and heart。 The very
   means how hardly are they won; By which we to the fountains rise! And
   haply; ere one half the course is run; Check'd in his progress; the poor devil
   dies。
   Faust
     Parchment; is that the sacred fount whence roll Waters; he thirsteth not who
   once hath quaffed? Oh; if it gush not from thine inmost soul; Thou has not won
   the life … restoring draught。
   Wagner
   Your pardon! 'tis delightful to transport Oneself into the spirit of the past; To
   see in times before us how a wise man thought; And what a glorious height we
   have achieved at last。
   Faust
   Ay truly! even to the loftiest star! To us; my friend; the ages that are pass'd A
   book with seven seals; close … fasten'd; are; And what the spirit of the times
   men call; Is merely their own spirit after all; Wherein; distorted oft; the times
   are glass'd。 Then truly; 'tis a sight to grieve the soul! At the first glance we fly it
   in dismay; A very lumber … room; a rubbish … hole; At best a sort of mock …
   heroic play; With saws pragmatical; and maxims sage; To suit the puppets
   and their mimic stage。
   Wagner
   But then the world and man; his heart and brain! Touching these things all men
   would something know。
   Faust
   Ay! what 'mong men as knowledge doth obtain! Who on the child its true
   name dares bestow? The few who somewhat of these things have known;
   Who their full hearts unguardedly reveal'd; Nor thoughts; nor feelings; from
   the mob conceal'd; Have died on crosses; or in flames been thrown。 Excuse
   me; friend; far now the night is spent; For this time we must say adieu。
   Wagner
   Still to watch on I had been well content; Thus to converse so learnedly with
   you。 But as to … morrow will be Easter … day; Some further questions grant; I
   pray; With diligence to study still I fondly cling; Already I know much; but
   would know everything。
   (Exit。)
     Faust Soliloquy … Chorus Of Angels
   Faust (alone)
   How him alone all hope abandons never; To empty trash who clings; with zeal
   untired; With greed for treasure gropes; and; joy … inspir'd; Exults if earth …
   worms second his endeavour。
   And dare a voice of merely human birth; E'en here; where shapes immortal
   throng'd intrude? Yet ah! thou poorest of the sons of earth; For once; I e'en
   to thee feel gratitude。 Despair the power of sense did well … nigh blast; And
   thou didst save me ere I sank dismay'd; So giant … like the vision seem'd; so
   vast; I felt myself shrink dwarf'd as I survey'd!
   I; God's own image; from this toil of clay Already freed; with eager joy who
   hail'd The mirror of eternal truth unveil'd; Mid light effulgent and celestial day:
   I; more than cherub; whose unfetter'd soul With penetrative glance aspir'd to
   flow Through nature's veins; and; still creating; know The life of gods; … how
   am I punish'd now! One thunder … word hath hurl'd me from the goal!
   Spirit! I dare not lift me to thy sphere。 What though my power compell'd thee
   to appear; My art was powerless to detain thee here。 In that great moment;
   rapture … fraught; I felt myself so small; so great; Fiercely didst thrust me from
   the realm of thought Back on humanity's uncertain fate! Who'll teach me now?
   What ought I to forego? Ought I that impulse to obey? Alas! our every deed;
   as well as every woe; Impedes the tenor of life's onward way!
   E'en to the noblest by the soul conceiv'd; Some feelings cling of baser quality;
   And when the goods of this world are achiev'd; Each nobler aim is termed a
   cheat; a lie。 Our aspirations; our soul's genuine life; Grow torpid in the din of
   earthly strife。 Though youthful phantasy; while hope inspires; Stretch o'er the
   infinite her wing sublime; A narrow compass limits her desires; When wreck'd
   our fortunes in the gulf of time。 In the deep heart of man care builds her nest;
   O'er secret woes she broodeth there; Sleepless she rocks herself and scareth
   joy and rest; Still is she wont some new disguise to wear; She may as house
   and court; as wife and child appear; As dagger; poison; fire and flood;
   Imagined evils chill thy blood;
   And what thou ne'er shall lose; o'er that dost shed the tear。 I am not like the
   gods! Feel it I must; I'm like the earth … worm; writhing in the dust; Which; as
   on dust it feeds; its native fare; Crushed 'neath the passer's tread; lies buried
   there。
   Is it not dust; wherewith this lofty wall; With hundred shelves; confines me
   round; Rubbish; in thousand shapes; may I not call What in this moth … world
   doth my being bound? Here; what doth fail me; shall I find? Read in a
   thousand tomes that; everywhere; Self … torture is the lot of human … kind;
   With but one mortal happy; here and there? Thou hollow skull; that grin; what
   should it say; But that thy brain; like mine; of old perplexed; Still yearning for
   the truth; hath sought the light of day。 And in the twilight wandered; sorely
   vexed? Ye instruments; forsooth; ye mock at me; With wheel; and cog; and
   ring; and cylinder; To nature's
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