From touch of thee!
Woe!
Margaret.
Neighbor, help! help! I faint!
[She falls down in a swoon.
end of act fourth.
ACT V.
Scene I.
Walpurgis-Night.
The Hartz Mountains. Neighborhood of Schirke and Elend.
Faust and Mephistopheles.
Mephistopheles.
Would you not like a broomstick to bestride?
Would God I had a stout old goat to ride!
The way is long; and I would rather spare me
This uphill work.
Faust.
While my good legs can bear me,
This knotted stick will serve my end.
What boots it to cut short the way?
Through the long labyrinth of vales to wend,
These rugged mountain-steeps to climb,
And hear the gushing waters’ ceaseless chime,
No better seasoning on my wish to-day
Could wait, to make the Brocken banquet prime!
The Spring is waving in the birchen bower,
And ev’n the pine begins to feel its power;
Shall we alone be strangers to its sway?
Mephistopheles.
No whiff I feel that hath a smell of May;
I am most wintry cold in every limb;
I’d sooner track my road o’er frost and snow.
How sadly mounts the imperfect moon!—so dim
Shines forth its red disk, with belated glow,
We run the risk, at every step, on stones
Or stumps of crazy trees, to break our bones.
You must allow me to request the aid
Of a Will-o-the-Wisp;—I see one right ahead,
And in the bog it blazes merrily.
Holla! my good friend! dare I be so free?
