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Speaker 1: Dedication, prelude, prologue and Scene one of Faust. This is
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Speaker 1: Faust Part one by Johann Wulfgang von Gerta, translated by
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Speaker 1: Bayard Tailor. Dedication Again, Ye come ye, hovering forms, I
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Speaker 1: find ye is early to my clouded sight. Ye shone,
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Speaker 1: Shall I attempt this once to seize and bind ye?
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Speaker 2: Still?
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Speaker 1: Oh my heart? Is that illusion throne? Ye crowd more near?
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Speaker 1: Then be the rain assigned ye, and sway me from
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Speaker 1: your misty, shadowy zone. My bosom thrills with youthful passion,
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Speaker 1: shaken from magic airs that round your march. Awaken of
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Speaker 1: joyous days, ye bring the blissful vision. The dear familiar
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Speaker 1: phantoms rise again, and, like an old and half extinct tradition,
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Speaker 1: first love return with friendship in his train. Renewed is
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Speaker 1: pain with mournful repetition. Life tracks his devious labyrinthine chain
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Speaker 1: and names the good whose cheating fortune tore them from
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Speaker 1: happy hours and left me to deplore them. They hear
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Speaker 1: no longer these succeeding measures, the souls to whom my
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Speaker 1: earliest songs I sang dispersed, the friendly troop with all
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Speaker 1: its pleasures, and still alas the echoes first that rang.
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Speaker 1: I bring the unknown multitude my treasures. Their very plaudits
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Speaker 1: give my heart a pang. And those beside whose joy
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Speaker 1: my song is flattered, if still they live wide through
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Speaker 1: the world, are scattered and grasped. Me now a long,
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Speaker 1: unwonted yearning for that serene and solemn spirit land My
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Speaker 1: song to faint Elian murmurs, turning sways like a harp
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Speaker 1: string by the breezes fanned, I thrill and tremble, tear on,
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Speaker 1: tear is burning, and the stern art is tenderly unmanned.
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Speaker 1: What I possess I see far distant lying, and what
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Speaker 1: I lost grows real and undying. Prelude at the theater, you.
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Speaker 3: Two, who oft a helping hand, have lent in need
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Speaker 3: and tribulation. Come let me know your expectation of this
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Speaker 3: our enterprise in german Land. I wish the crowd to
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Speaker 3: feel itself well treated, especially since it lives and lets
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Speaker 3: me live. The posts are set, the booth of boards completed,
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Speaker 3: and each awaits the banquet I shall give. Already there,
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Speaker 3: with curious eyebrows raised, they sit sedate and hope to
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Speaker 3: be amazed. I know how one the people's taste may flatter,
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Speaker 3: Yet here a huge embarrassment. I feel what they're accustomed
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Speaker 3: to is no great matter. But then, alas they've read
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Speaker 3: an awful deal, how shall we plan that all be
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Speaker 3: fresh and new? Important matter, yet attractive too? For tis
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Speaker 3: my pleasure to behold them surging When to our booth
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Speaker 3: the current sets apace, and with tremendous oft repeated urging,
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Speaker 3: squeeze onward through the narrow gate of grace. By daylight
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Speaker 3: even they push and cram in to reach the cellar's
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Speaker 3: box a fighting host, and as for bread around a
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Speaker 3: baker's door, in famine to get a ticket, break their necks.
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Speaker 3: Almost this miracle alone can work the poet on men
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Speaker 3: so various. Now, my friend, pray show.
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Speaker 4: It speak not to me of yonder motley masses, whom
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Speaker 4: but to see puts out the fire of song. Hide
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Speaker 4: from my view the surgeon crowd that passes, and in
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Speaker 4: its whirlpool forces us along. No lead me where some
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Speaker 4: heavenly silence glasses the purer joys that round the poet's throng,
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Speaker 4: where love and friendship still divinely fashion the bonds that
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Speaker 4: bless the wreaths that crown his passion. Ah every utterance
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Speaker 4: from the depths of feeling, the timid lips have stammeringly expressed,
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Speaker 4: now failing now perchance success revealing gulps the wild moment,
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Speaker 4: in its greedy breast or oft reluctant years, its warrant ceiling,
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Speaker 4: its perfect stature, stands at last confessed. What dazzles for
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Speaker 4: the moment spends its spirit? What's genuine? Shall posterity inherit?
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Speaker 5: Posterity? Don't name the word to me. If I should
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Speaker 5: choose to preach posterity, where would you get contemporary fun
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Speaker 5: that men will have it? There's no blinking. A fine
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Speaker 5: young fellow's presence, to my thinking, is something worth to
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Speaker 5: everyone who generally his nature cannot pour. Takes from the
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Speaker 5: people's moods no irritation. The wider circle he acquires, the
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Speaker 5: more securely works his inspiration. Plug apart and give us
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Speaker 5: stirling coin. Let fancy be with her attendants fitted sense, reason, sentiment,
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Speaker 5: and passion join, But have a care lest folly be omitted.
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Speaker 3: Chiefly enough of incident. Prepare they come to look, and
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Speaker 3: they prefer to stare. Reel off a host of threads
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Speaker 3: before their faces, so that they gape in stupid wonder.
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Speaker 3: Then by sheer diffuseness you have won their graces and
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Speaker 3: are at once most popular of men. Only by mass
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Speaker 3: you touch the mass, for any will finally himself his bit.
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Speaker 3: Select who offers much brings something unto many, and each
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Speaker 3: goes home content with the effect. If you've a piece,
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Speaker 3: why just in pieces? Give it a hash A stew
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Speaker 3: will bring success. Believe it tis easily displayed and easy
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Speaker 3: to invent. What use a whole compactly to present? Your
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Speaker 3: hearers pick and pluck as soon as they receive it.
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Speaker 4: You do not feel how such a trade debases, how
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Speaker 4: ill it suits the artist? Proud and true the botching
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Speaker 4: work each fine pretender traces, is I perceive a principle with.
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Speaker 3: You Such a reproof not in the least offends a
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Speaker 3: man who, some result intends must use the tools that
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Speaker 3: best are fitting. Reflect soft wood is given to you
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Speaker 3: for splitting, and then observe for whom you write. If
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Speaker 3: one comes bored exhausted, quite another satiate leaves the banquet tapers,
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Speaker 3: and worst of all full many are white is fresh
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Speaker 3: from reading of the daily papers. Idly to us they
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Speaker 3: come as to a maskid mere curiosity, their spirits warming
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Speaker 3: the ladies with themselves and with their finery, aid without
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Speaker 3: a salary, their parts performing what dreams are yours? In
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Speaker 3: high poetic places you're pleased forsooth fool houses to behold,
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Speaker 3: draw near and view your patron's faces. The half are coarse,
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Speaker 3: the half are cold. One, when the play is out,
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Speaker 3: goes home to cards a wild night on a wench's breast.
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Speaker 3: Another chooses, why should you rack poor foolish bards for
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Speaker 3: ends like these? The gracious muses I till you give,
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Speaker 3: but more more? Ever more, they ask, Thus shall you
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Speaker 3: hit the mark of gain and glory? Seek to confound
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Speaker 3: your auditory? To satisfy them is a task. What ails
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Speaker 3: you now? Is it suffering or pleasure?
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Speaker 4: Go find yourself a more obedient slave? What shall the poet,
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Speaker 4: that which nature gave the highest right, supreme humanity forfeit?
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Speaker 4: So wantonly to swell your treasure? Whence o'er the heart
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Speaker 4: his empire, free the elements of life, how conquers he
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Speaker 4: is not his heart's accord urge outward far and dim,
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Speaker 4: to wind the world in unison with him. When on
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Speaker 4: the spindle spun to endless distance by nature's listless hand,
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Speaker 4: the threadest world and the discordant tones of all existence,
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Speaker 4: in sullen jangle, are together hurled. Who then the changeless
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Speaker 4: order of creation divides and kindles into rhythmic dance. Who
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Speaker 4: brings the one to join the general ordination where it
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Speaker 4: may throb in grandest consonants. Who bids the storm to passion,
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Speaker 4: stir the bosom in brooding souls, the sunset burn above.
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Speaker 4: Who scatter every fairest april blossom along the shining path
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Speaker 4: of love. Who breids the noteless leaves to crowns were
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Speaker 4: quitting dessert with fame in actions every field, Who makes
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Speaker 4: olympus sure the God's uniting the might of man, as
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Speaker 4: in the Bard revealed.
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Speaker 5: So these fine forces in conjunction propel the high poetic function.
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Speaker 5: As in a love adventure they might play. You meet
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Speaker 5: by accident, you feel, you stay, and by degrees your
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Speaker 5: heart is tangled. Bliss grow the past, and then its
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Speaker 5: course is jangled. Your ragsh white. Then comes a touch
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Speaker 5: of woe and there's a need romance completed. Ere you know,
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Speaker 5: let us then such a drama give grasps the exhaustless
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Speaker 5: life that all men live. It shares therein though you
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Speaker 5: may comprehend, where'er you touch, there's interest without end. In
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Speaker 5: motley pictures, little light, much error, and of truth a
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Speaker 5: glimmering might. Thus the best beverage is supplied. Whence all
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Speaker 5: the world is cheered and edified. Then at your play
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Speaker 5: behold the fairest flower of youth. Collect to hear the revelation.
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Speaker 5: Each tender soul, with sentimental power sucks melancholy food from
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Speaker 5: your creation. And now in this, now that the leven works,
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Speaker 5: and each he hold what in his bosom lurks. They
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Speaker 5: still are moved at once to weeping or to laughter.
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Speaker 5: Still wonder at your flight, enjoy the show they see.
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Speaker 5: A mind, once formed is never suited after one. Yet
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Speaker 5: in growth, will ever grateful be?
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Speaker 4: Then give me back that time of pleasures. While yet
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Speaker 4: in joyous growth, I sang when like a fount the
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Speaker 4: crowding measures uninterrupted gushed and sprang. Then bright mist veiled
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Speaker 4: the world before me in opening buds and marvel woke
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Speaker 4: as I the thousand blossoms broke, which every valley richly
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Speaker 4: bore me. I nothing had, and yet enough for youth,
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Speaker 4: joy in illusion, ardent, thirst for truth, give unrestrained the
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Speaker 4: old emotion, the bliss that touched the verge of pain,
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Speaker 4: the strength of hate, loves, deep devotion. Oh, give me
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Speaker 4: back my youth again.
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Speaker 5: Youth, good, my friend, you certainly require when foes in
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Speaker 5: combat sorely press you, When bloodly maids in fond desire
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Speaker 5: hang on your bosom and caress you. When from the
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Speaker 5: hard worn gold wreath beckons afar the race awaiting, when
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Speaker 5: after dancing out your breath you pass the night in dissipating,
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Speaker 5: but the familiar heart with soul to play with grace
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Speaker 5: and bold expression, and towards a self erected goal, to
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Speaker 5: walk with many a sweet digression. This, aged sirs, belongs
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Speaker 5: to you, and we no less revere you for that reason.
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Speaker 5: Age of childish makes they say, But tis not true.
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Speaker 5: We're only genuine children still in age's season.
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Speaker 3: The words you've banded are sufficient, tis deeds that I
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Speaker 3: prefer to see in compliments. You're both proficient, but might
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Speaker 3: the while more useful be what need to talk of? Inspiration?
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Speaker 3: Tis no companion of delay. If poetry be your vocation,
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Speaker 3: let poetry your will obey full well, you know what
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Speaker 3: here is wanting. The crowd for strongest drink is panting,
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Speaker 3: and such. Forthwith, I'd have you brew what's left undone
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Speaker 3: to day to morrow. Will not do waste, not a
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Speaker 3: day in vain digression. With resolute, courageous trust, seize every
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Speaker 3: possible impression and make it firmly your possession. You'll then
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Speaker 3: work on, because you must upon our German stage. You
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Speaker 3: know it, each tries his hand at what he will.
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Speaker 3: So take of traps and scenes your fill, and all
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Speaker 3: you find, be sure to show it. Use both the
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Speaker 3: great and lesser heavenly light, squander the stars in any number, beasts, birds, trees, rocks,
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Speaker 3: and all such lumber, fire, water, darkness, day and night. Thus,
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Speaker 3: in our booth's contracted sphere, the circle of creation will
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Speaker 3: appear and move as we deliberately impel from Heaven across
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Speaker 3: the world to Hell.
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Speaker 1: Prolog In heaven, the three archangels come forward.
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Speaker 6: The sun orb sings in emulation, mid Brother spears his
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Speaker 6: ancient frowned, his path predestined through creation. He ends with
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Speaker 6: step of thunder sound. The angels from his vigids splendid
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Speaker 6: draw power whose measure none can say. The lofty works,
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Speaker 6: uncomprehended are bright as on the earliest.
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Speaker 7: Day, and swift and swift beyond conceiving the splendor of
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Speaker 7: the world goes round day's eden, brightness still leaving the
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Speaker 7: awful night's intense profound. The ocean tides in form are
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Speaker 7: breaking against the rocks, deep bases hurled, and both the
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Speaker 7: spheric grace partaking eternal swift or onward world and.
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Speaker 3: Rival storms abroad are surging from sea to land, from
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Speaker 3: land to sea, a chain of deepest action forging round
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Speaker 3: all in wrathful energy. Their flames are desolation, blazing before
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Speaker 3: the thunder's crashing way. Yet Lord, thy messengers are praising
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Speaker 3: the gentle movement of thy day.
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Speaker 7: Though still by them uncomprehended.
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Speaker 3: From these angels, there and all thy works.
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Speaker 7: And splendid are as in creations.
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Speaker 2: Are since thou, o Lord, deigns to approach again and
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Speaker 2: ask us how we do in manner kindness, and heretofore
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Speaker 2: to meet myself wet fame among Dumanians. Now my face,
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Speaker 2: Thou findest pardon this troupe. I cannot follow after with
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Speaker 2: loved This speech, though by them scorned and spanned my patroles,
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Speaker 2: certainly wouldmove thy laughter. If thou hadst not all merriment
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Speaker 2: unlearned of suns and worlds, I have nothing to be quoted.
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Speaker 2: How man torment themselves is all I have noted. The
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Speaker 2: little god of the world sticks to the same old way,
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Speaker 2: and is as whimsical as on creation's day. Life somewhat
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Speaker 2: better might content him but for the gleam of heavenly
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Speaker 2: light which thou hast lent him. He calls it reason.
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Speaker 2: Thence his power is increased to be far bestlier than
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Speaker 2: any beast, saving thy Gracia's presence. He to me, a
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Speaker 2: long legged grasshopper appears to be that springing flies and
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Speaker 2: flying springs, and in the grass the same old ditty sings.
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Speaker 2: Would he still lay among the grass he grows in
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Speaker 2: each bit of dang he seeks to stick his nose in.
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Speaker 8: Hast Thou then nothing more to mention comest. Ever, thus,
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Speaker 8: with ill intentioned finds nothing right on earth eternally, No.
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Speaker 2: Lord, I find things. They're still bad as they can be.
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Speaker 2: Men's misery even to pity moves my nature. I have
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Speaker 2: scarce a heart to plague the wretched creature. Nost faust,
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Speaker 2: the doctor faust my servant. He forsooth he serves you.
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Speaker 2: Off the strange devices, no oddly meaning or drink. The
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Speaker 2: full suffices. His spirit is farm and vale pirate. Half
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Speaker 2: consists of his friend it crazed unrest, the fairest tasks
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Speaker 2: from heaven he required from art, the highest raptures and
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Speaker 2: the best, and all the neir and far that he desired,
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Speaker 2: fails to subdue the tumult of his breast, though.
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Speaker 8: Still confused his service. Unto me, I soon shall lead
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Speaker 8: him to a clearer morning. Seize not the gardener, even
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Speaker 8: while buds his tree, both flower and fruit, the future
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Speaker 8: years adorning.
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Speaker 2: What do you lo bet there is still a chance
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Speaker 2: to gain him, if unto me full leave you give
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Speaker 2: gently upon my road to train him.
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Speaker 8: As long as he on earth shall live. So long
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Speaker 8: I make no prohibition. While's desires and aspirations stir, he
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Speaker 8: cannot choose, but eer.
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Speaker 2: My thanks. I find the dead no acquisition, and never
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Speaker 2: cared to have them in my kipping. I much prefer
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Speaker 2: the chicks where reddy blood is lipping, And when a
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Speaker 2: corps approachest close my house. It goes at me as
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Speaker 2: a decaped the mouse.
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Speaker 8: Enough, what thou hast asked is granted. Turn off this
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Speaker 8: spirit from his fountain head to trap him. Let thy
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Speaker 8: snares be planted, and him with thee be downward. Lad
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Speaker 8: then stand abashed when thou art forced to say, a
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Speaker 8: good man, through obscurest aspiration has still an instinct of
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Speaker 8: the one true way.
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Speaker 2: Agreed. But it is a shock probation about my bet.
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Speaker 2: I feel no trepidation. If I fulfill my expectation, he
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Speaker 2: will let me triumph with a swelling breast. Dust shall
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Speaker 2: he eat, and with a chest as did a certain snake.
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Speaker 2: By near relation.
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Speaker 8: Therein thou art free according to thy merits, the like
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Speaker 8: of thee have never moved my hate. Of all the bold,
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Speaker 8: denying spirits, the waggish knave least trouble doth create man's
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Speaker 8: active nature flagging seats too soon, the level unqualified repose
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Speaker 8: he learns to crave whence willingly the comrade him I gave,
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Speaker 8: who works, excites and must create as devil. But ye,
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Speaker 8: God's sons in love and duty enjoy the rich, the
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Speaker 8: everlasting beauty, creative power that works eternal schemes clasp you
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Speaker 8: in bonds of love, relaxing never and what in wavering
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Speaker 8: apparition gleams fix in its place with thoughts that stand forever.
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Speaker 1: Heaven closes, the archangels separate, soulless.
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Speaker 2: I like at times to hear the ancience word and
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Speaker 2: have a care to be most civil. It is really
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Speaker 2: kind of such a noble lord so humanly to gossip
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Speaker 2: with the devil.
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Speaker 1: First part of the tragedy one night, a lofty, arched,
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Speaker 1: narrow Gothic chamber, faust in a chair at his desk, restless.
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Speaker 9: I've studied now philosophy and jurisprudence, medicine, and even alas theology,
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Speaker 9: from end to end, with labor keen, and here, poor fool,
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Speaker 9: with all my lore, I stand no wiser than before.
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Speaker 9: I'm magister, yea doctor, height and straight are crosswise wrong
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Speaker 9: or right? These ten years long, with many woes, I've
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Speaker 9: led my scholars by the nose, and see that nothing
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Speaker 9: can be known. That knowledge cuts me to the bone.
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Speaker 9: I'm cleverer true than those fops of teachers, doctors and magisters,
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Speaker 9: scribes and preachers. Neither scruples nor doubts come now to
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Speaker 9: smite me, nor hell nor devil can longer affright me.
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Speaker 9: For this all pleasure am I foregoing? I do not
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Speaker 9: pretend to aught worth knowing. I do not pretend I
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Speaker 9: could be a teacher to help or convert a fellow creature.
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Speaker 9: Then too, I've neither lands, nor gold, nor the world's
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Speaker 9: least pop ump or honor hold. No dog would endure
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Speaker 9: such a cursed existence. Wherefore from magic I seek assistance
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Speaker 9: that many a secret perchance I reach through spirit power
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Speaker 9: and spirit speech. And thus the bitter task forego of
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Speaker 9: saying things I do not know, that I may detect
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Speaker 9: the inmost force which binds the world and guides its course,
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Speaker 9: its germs, productive powers, explore and rummage in empty words.
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Speaker 9: No more o full and splendid moon, whom I have
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Speaker 9: from this desk seen climb the sky so many a midnight,
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Speaker 9: would thy glow for the last time beheld my woe?
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Speaker 9: Ever thine eye, most mournful friend o'er books and papers
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Speaker 9: saw me bend. But would that I on mountains grand
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Speaker 9: amid thy blessed light, could stand with spirits through mountain caverns,
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Speaker 9: hover float in thy twilight, the meadows over and freed
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Speaker 9: from the fumes of lore that swathe me to health.
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Speaker 9: In thy dewy fountains bathe me, ah me this dungeon.
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Speaker 9: Still I see this drear, accursed masonry, where even the
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Speaker 9: welcome daylight strains but duskly through the painted panes, hemmed
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Speaker 9: in by many, a toppling heap of books, worm eaten,
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Speaker 9: gray with dust, which to the vaulted ceiling creep against
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Speaker 9: the smoky paper, thrust with glasses. Boxes round me, stacked
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Speaker 9: and instruments together, hurled ancestral lumber, stuffed and packed, Such
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Speaker 9: as my world, and what a world? And do I ask,
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Speaker 9: wherefore my heart falters oppressed with unknown needs? Why some
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Speaker 9: inexplicable smart all movement of my life impedes alas in
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Speaker 9: living nature's stead, where God his human creatures set in
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Speaker 9: smoke and mold, the fleshless dead, and bones of beasts
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Speaker 9: around me? Yet why up and seek the broad free land?
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Speaker 9: And this one book of mystery from Nostradamis's very hand,
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Speaker 9: is it not sufficient company? When I the starry courses know,
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Speaker 9: and Nature's wise instruction seek with light of power, my
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Speaker 9: soul shall glow, as when to spirits spirits speak tis
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Speaker 9: vein this empty brooding here though guessed the holy symbols
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Speaker 9: be you, spirits, come you hover near? Oh, if you
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Speaker 9: hear me, answer me.
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Speaker 1: He opens the book and perceives the sign of the macrocosm.
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Speaker 9: Ha. What a sudden rapture leaps from this? I view
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Speaker 9: through all my senses swiftly flowing. I feel a youthful, holy,
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Speaker 9: vital bliss in every vain and fiber newly glowing. Was
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Speaker 9: it a God who traced this sign with calm across
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Speaker 9: my tumult, stealing my troubled heart to joy, unsealing with impulse,
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Speaker 9: mystic and divine the powers of nature here around my path, revealing?
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Speaker 9: Am I a God? So clear mine eyes? In these
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Speaker 9: pure features? I behold creative nature to my soul. Unfold,
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Speaker 9: what says the sage? Now, First I recognize the spirit world.
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Speaker 9: No closures. Fasten, thy senses shut, Thy heart is dead,
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Speaker 9: disciple up, untiring, hasten to bathe thy breast in mourning red.
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Speaker 1: He contemplates the sign.
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Speaker 9: How each the whole, its substance, gives each in the
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Speaker 9: other works and lives like heavenly forces, rising and descending
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Speaker 9: their golden urns, reciprocally lent with wings that winnow blessing
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Speaker 9: from heaven through Earth. I see them pressing, filling thee
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Speaker 9: all with harmony, unceasing. How grand a show, but ah
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Speaker 9: a show alone thee boundless nature? How make thee my own?
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Speaker 9: Where you you beast, founce of all being shining, whereon
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Speaker 9: hang heavens and Earth's desire? Where to our withered hearts aspire,
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Speaker 9: you flow, you feed? And am I vainly pining?
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Speaker 1: He turns the leaves impatiently and perceives the sign of
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Speaker 1: the earth spirit.
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Speaker 9: How otherwise upon me works this sign? Thou Spirit of
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Speaker 9: the Earth, art nearer. Even now my powers are loftier, clearer.
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Speaker 9: I glow as drunk with new made wine, new strength
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Speaker 9: and heart to meet the world. Incite me the woe
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Speaker 9: of earth, the bliss of Earth. Invite me. And though
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Speaker 9: the shock of storms may smite me, no crash of
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Speaker 9: shipwreck shall have power to fright me. Clouds gather over me,
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Speaker 9: the moon conceals her light, the lamps extinguished, mis rise, red,
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Speaker 9: angry rays are darting around my head. There falls a
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Speaker 9: horror from the vaulted roof and seizes me. I feel
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Speaker 9: thy presence, Spirit, I invoke, reveal thyself ha in my heart,
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Speaker 9: what rending stroke with new impulsion my senses heave. In
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Speaker 9: this convulsion, I feel THEE draw my heart, absorb, exhaust me.
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Speaker 9: Thou must, Thou must, and though my life it cost me.
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Speaker 1: He seizes the book and mysteriously pronounces the sign of
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Speaker 1: the Spirit. A ruddy flame flashes. The spirit appears in
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Speaker 1: the flame, who calls me with averted head.
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Speaker 9: Terrible to see me?
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Speaker 10: Hast thou, long, with might, attracted long from my sphere,
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Speaker 10: thy food extracted, And.
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Speaker 9: Now woe I endure not THEE to.
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Speaker 11: View me is thine aspiration, my voice to hear my
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Speaker 11: countenance to see thy powerful yearning moveth me?
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Speaker 10: Here am I what mean?
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Speaker 11: Perturbation? THEE superhuman shakes thy soul's high calling. Where where
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Speaker 11: is the breast from which itself a world did bear
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Speaker 11: and shaped and cherished with such joy, expanded to be
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Speaker 11: our peer with us the spirits banded. Where art thou faust,
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Speaker 11: whose voice has pierced to me, who towards me, pressed
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Speaker 11: with all thine energy? He art thou, whom my presence, breathing,
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Speaker 11: seeing trembles through all the depths of being a writhing worm,
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Speaker 11: a terror stricken form.
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Speaker 9: The form of flame. Shall I then fear? Yes, I
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Speaker 9: am faust, I am thy peer.
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Speaker 10: In the tides of life in action storm, a fluctuant wave,
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Speaker 10: a shuttle free birth, and the grave an eternal sea,
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Speaker 10: a weaving, flowing life, all glowing, Thus at times humming
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Speaker 10: loom tis my hand prepares the garment of life which
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Speaker 10: the deity wears.
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Speaker 9: Thou, who around the wide world wendest thou busy spirit,
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Speaker 9: How near I feel to thee?
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Speaker 11: Thou art like.
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Speaker 10: The spirit which thou comprehendest, not.
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Speaker 1: Me, disappears overwhelmed.
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Speaker 9: Lot thee whom then I image of the Godhead, not
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Speaker 9: even like thee. A knock, oh death, I know it
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Speaker 9: tis my famulus, my fairest luck finds no fruition in
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Speaker 9: all the fullness of my vision. The soulless sneak disturbs me.
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Speaker 1: Thus enter Wagner in dressing gown, a nightcap, a lamp
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Speaker 1: in his hand. Foust turns impatiently.
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Speaker 12: Art, I heard your declamation, twas sure an old Greek
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Speaker 12: tragedy you read In such an art, I crave some preparation,
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Speaker 12: since now it stands one in good stead. I've often
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Speaker 12: heard it said a preacher might learn with the comedian teacher.
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Speaker 9: Yes, when the priest comedian is by nature as happily now,
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Speaker 9: and then the case may be ah.
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Speaker 12: When one studies thus a prison creature that's scarce. The
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Speaker 12: world on holidays can see scarce through a glass by
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Speaker 12: rare occasion. How shall one lead it? By persuasion?
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Speaker 9: You'll ne'er attain it? Save you know the feeling, Save
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Speaker 9: from the soul. It rises clear, serene, in primal strength,
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Speaker 9: compelling the hearts and minds of all who hear. You
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Speaker 9: sit forever, gluing, patching, You cook the scraps from others fair,
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Speaker 9: and from your heap of ashes, hatching a starveling flame,
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Speaker 9: you blow it bare. Take children's monkeys, gaze admiring, if
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Speaker 9: such your taste, and be content. But near from heart
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Speaker 9: to heart you'll speak inspiring. Save your own heart is eloquent.
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Speaker 12: Yet through delivery or to succeed, I feel that I
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Speaker 12: am far behind.
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Speaker 9: Indeed, seek thou the honest recompense. Beware a tinkling fool
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Speaker 9: to be with little art. Clear wit and sense suggests
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Speaker 9: their own delivery. And if thou art moved to speak
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Speaker 9: in earnest, what need that? After words? Thou yearnest. Yes,
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Speaker 9: your discourses, with their glittering show where you for men
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Speaker 9: twist shredded thought like paper, are unrefreshing as the winds
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Speaker 9: that blow the rustling leaves through chill, autumnal vapor.
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Speaker 2: Ah.
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Speaker 12: God, but art is long, and life alas is fleeting
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Speaker 12: and oft with zeal my critic duties meeting in head
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Speaker 12: and breast. There's something wrong, how hard it is to
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Speaker 12: compass the assistance whereby one rises to the source, and
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Speaker 12: happily ere one travels half the course. Must the poor
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Speaker 12: devil quick existence his parchment?
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Speaker 9: Then the holy before thee a draft where from thy
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Speaker 9: thirst forever slakes. No true refreshment can restore thee, save
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Speaker 9: what from thine own soul spontaneous breaks pardon.
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Speaker 12: A great delight is granted when in the spirit of
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Speaker 12: the age is planted. We mark how ere are times
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Speaker 12: a sage has thought, and then how far his work?
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Speaker 12: And grandly we have brought.
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Speaker 9: Oh, yes, up to the stars. At last, Listen, my friend,
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Speaker 9: the ages that are past are now a book with
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Speaker 9: seven seals protected. What you the spirit of the ages call,
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Speaker 9: is nothing but the spirit of you. All wherein the
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Speaker 9: ages are reflected so oftentimes you miserably mart at the
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Speaker 9: first glance, who sees it runs away an awful barrel
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Speaker 9: and a lumber garret, or at the best, a punch
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Speaker 9: and judy play with maxims most pragmatical and hitting, as
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Speaker 9: in the mouths of puppets, are befitting.
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Speaker 6: But then the.
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Speaker 12: World, the human heart and brain of these one covet
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Speaker 12: some slight.
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Speaker 9: Apprehension, yes, of the kind which men attain. Who dares
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Speaker 9: the child's true name in public mention? The few who
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Speaker 9: thereof something really learned unwisely frank with hearts that spurned concealing,
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Speaker 9: and to the mob laid bare, each thought and feeling
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Speaker 9: have evermore been crucified and burned. I pray you, friend,
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Speaker 9: tis now the dead of night. Our converse here must
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Speaker 9: be suspended.
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Speaker 12: I would have showed your watches with the light, so
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Speaker 12: that I'll learned talk might be extended tomorrow, though I'll
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Speaker 12: ask in eastern leisure this and the other question at
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Speaker 12: your pleasure, most zealously. I seek for erudition, much do
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Speaker 12: I know? But to know is all my ambition.
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Speaker 9: Exit that brain alone not loses hope. Whose choice is
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Speaker 9: to stick in shallow trash for evermore? Which digs with
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Speaker 9: eager hand for buried ore, and when it finds an
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Speaker 9: angle worm, rejoices, dare such a human voice disturb the
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Speaker 9: flow around me? Here of spirit present, fullest? And yet
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Speaker 9: this once my thanks I owe to thee of all
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Speaker 9: earth suns, the poorest, dullest, For thou hast torn me
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Speaker 9: from that desperate state which threatened soon to overwhelm my senses.
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Speaker 9: The apparition was so giant great it dwarfed and withered
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Speaker 9: all my soul's pretenses. Ay image of the Godhead, who began,
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Speaker 9: deeming eternal truth secure in nearness, hecquires, have you begun
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Speaker 9: the sweet consoling chant, which, through the night of death
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Speaker 9: the angels ministrant saying God's new Covenant, repeating with.
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Speaker 8: Vice him faithful and graciously laid him live to.
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Speaker 9: Him when we would find him Christ.
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Speaker 13: No more found we christ him wold that molested him,
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Speaker 13: trials that tested him gloriously ended.
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Speaker 9: Why here in dust entice me with your spell, ye, gentle,
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Speaker 9: powerful sounds of heaven peel Rather there where tender natures
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Speaker 9: dwell Your messages I hear, But faith has not been given.
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Speaker 9: The dearest child of faith is miracle. I venture not
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Speaker 9: to soar to yonder regions. Whence the glad tidings hither afloat,
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Speaker 9: and yet from childhood up familiar with the note to life,
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Speaker 9: it now renews my old techins. Once heavenly love sent
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Speaker 9: down a burning kiss upon my brow. In Sabbath silence,
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Speaker 9: holy and filled with mystic presage chimed the church bell slowly,
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Speaker 9: and prayer dissolved me in a fervent bliss. A sweet,
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Speaker 9: uncomprehended yearning drove forth my feet through woods and meadows free,
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Speaker 9: And while a thousand tears were burning, I felt a
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Speaker 9: world arise for me. These chants to youth and all
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Speaker 9: its sports, appealing proclaimed the spring's rejoicing holiday and memory
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Speaker 9: holds me now with childish feeling. Back from the last
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Speaker 9: the solemn way sound on, ye, hymns of Heaven, so
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Speaker 9: sweet and mild. My tears gush forth the earth takes
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Speaker 9: back her child.
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Speaker 1: Had he victoriously burst from all at.
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Speaker 5: Gray and gloriously now sits exalted?
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Speaker 4: Is he a low of birth rapture created here Ah,
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Speaker 4: to the oil of earth. Still are we need here,
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Speaker 4: we his aspiring.
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Speaker 9: Followers him, we miss, weeping desiring Master, God, bless.
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Speaker 3: Christ has arisen out of corruption's womb.
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Speaker 14: Firstly the prison, break from your gloom, praising and lovingly
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Speaker 14: needing him, him, preaching and speeding him, him, blessing succeeding him.
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Speaker 6: Thus is the master here, Thus is he here.
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