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Goethe - Faust Part 1
Identifier
000265
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Faust part one – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Once more I sense uncertain shapes appearing
Dimly perceived in days of youth long past
Now in my heart I feel the moment nearing
When I can hold those phantom figures fast
The haze and mist that swallowed them is clearing
They gather round me, bodied forth at last
Within me now a youthful passion surges
As from a magic spell their throng emerges
They bring back scenes of youthful jubilation
And with them many well loved shades appear
A half forgotten distant intimation
Of those in early times I held so dear
The grief returns, once more the lamentation
Of life’s obscure and wayward course I hear
For those capricious fortune cruelly treated
Who all too soon of joy and life were cheated
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And now I feel a long forgotten yearning
That solemn, quiet world calls me once more
Its spirit music to my lips returning
Like the Aeolian harp’s uncertain chord
I tremble and my cheeks with tears are burning
The stern heart softens, melted to its core
What I possess now vanishes before me
And what was lost alone has substance for me