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Goethe, Who yearns for the impossible I love

From Faust part II, Translated by G. Madison Priest

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Chiron.

Here Rome and Greece each bearded each in fight,
Olympus on the left, Peneus on the right.
The greatest realm that ever was lost in sand;
The monarch flees, the conquering burghers stand.
Look up! Here stands, significantly near,
The eternal temple in the moonlight clear.

Manto [dreaming within].

From horse-hoofs bounding
The sacred stairs are resounding;
Demigods are drawing near.

Chiron.

Quite right!
Raise your eyes; behold who's here!


Manto [awakening].

Welcome! I see you do not fail to come.


Chiron.

Likewise for you still stands your temple-home.

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