Faust: The First Part · 1808
Night (Open Field)
Translated by Bayard Taylor (1870)
OPEN FIELD
FAUST and MEPHISTOPHELES speeding onward on black horses.
FAUST
What weave they there round the raven-stone?
MEPHISTOPHELES
I know not what they are brewing and doing.
FAUST
Soaring up, sweeping down, bowing and bending!
MEPHISTOPHELES
A witches’-guild.
FAUST
They scatter, devote and doom!
MEPHISTOPHELES
On! on!
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust: The First Part, Night (Open Field). Translated by Bayard Taylor. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/faust-part-1-taylor/26/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust: The First Part, Night (Open Field). Translated by Bayard Taylor. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/faust-part-1-taylor/26/.