Beneath the door-stone swell
The penal flames of hell.
The evil one,

In pitiless wrath,
Roars for his prey.

Faust. (aloud.) Margaret! Margaret!
Marg. (starting.) That was his voice!

[She springs up; her chains fall off.

Where is he? for I know 'twas he.

None, none shall stay me; I am free!
'Tis to his bosom I will fly,

In his embraces I will lie.

His Margaret he calls, on the threshold he stands,
'Mid the laughter and howls of the fiendish bands;

Through the shouts of their malice, their hissings of scorn,
How sweetly his voice of affection was borne!

Faust. 'Tis I.

Marg.

Oh, say it, say it, once again,
My friend, my lover! Where is now my pain?
Where is my chain, my dungeon, and my grave?
He comes himself to comfort and to save.

I see the church's aisle, the street,
Where first we dared to gaze, to meet:
The garden blooms before me now,
Where first we shared the kiss, the vow.

Faust. Away! away!

Marg.

Oh, not so fast!

Time is with you so sweetly past.

Faust. Haste, Margaret, haste!

For if thou lingerest here,

We both shall pay it dear.

Marg. What, thou canst kiss no more!

Away so short a time as this,

And hast so soon forgot to kiss!

Why are my joys less ardent than they were?

Once in those folding arms I loved to lie,

Clung to that breast, and deem'd my heaven was there,
Till, scarce alive, I almost long'd to die!

Those lips are cold, and do not move,

Alas! unkind, unkind!

Hast thou left all thy love,

Thy former love, behind?

Faust. Follow me! follow, Margaret! be not slow:
With twice its former heat my love shall glow.
Margaret, this instant come, 'tis all I pray.

Marg. And art thou, art thou, he for certain,

Faust. I am; come with me.

Marg.

say?

Thou shalt burst my chain,

And lay me in thy folding arms again.

How comes it, tell me, thou canst bear my sight?

Know'st thou to whom thou bring'st the means of flight?

Faust. Come, come !-I feel the morning breeze's breath.

Marg. This hand was guilty of a mother's death!

I drown'd my child! And thou canst tell

If it was mine, 'twas thine as well.
I scarce believe, though so it seem-
Give me thy hand-I do not dream-

That dear, dear hand. Alas, that spot!
Wipe it away, the purple clot!

What hast thou done? Put up thy sword:
It was thy Margaret's voice implored.'

Faust. Day! Margaret, day! your hour will soon be past.
Marg. True, 'tis the day; the last-the last!

My bridal day!-'twill soon appear.

Tell it to none thou hast been here.

We shall see one another, and soon shall see→→
But not at the dance will our meeting be.

We two shall meet

In the crowded street:

The citizens throng-the press is hot,

They talk together-I hear them not:

The bell has toll'd-the wand they break-
My arms they pinion till they ache!
They force me down upon the chair!
The neck of each spectator there
Thrills, as though itself would feel

The headsman's stroke-the sweeping steel!
And all are as dumb, with speechless pain,
As if they never would speak again!

Faust. Oh, had I never lived!

Meph. (appears in the door-way.)

Off! or your life will be but short:
My coursers paw the ground, and snort!
The sun will rise, and off they bound.
Marg. Who is it rises from the ground?
'Tis he!-the evil one of hell!

Marg. Justice of Heaven! to thee my soul I give!

Meph. (to Faust.) Come! come! or tarry else with her to die.
Marg. Heaven, I am thine! to thy embrace I fly!

Hover around, ye angel bands,

Save me! defy him where he stands.

Henry, I shudder! 'tis for thee.

Meph. She is condemn'd!

Voices from above.

Meph. (to Faust.)

Is pardon'd!
Hence, and flee!

[Vanishes with Faust.

Marg. (from within.) Henry! Henry!'

The drama thus ends. This translation cannot fail to give the author a very considerable reputation, as well for the spirit with which he has transfused the beauties of the original into English as for the skill with which he has made the verse correspond with that of the original. We cannot but regret that he has not translated the whole; and we feel this the more, because we are sure that he could have done it with equal credit to himself and advantage to the public.

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