Amazon.com description: Product Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...Sisters, be banished from here! GUILT. Beside thee, and bound to thee, I shall appear! NECESSITY. At your heels goes Necessity, blight in her breath. THE THREE. The clouds are in motion, and cover each star! Behind there, behind! from afar, from afar, He cometh, our Brother! he comes, he is Death! FAUST (in the Palace). Four saw I come, but those that went were three; The sense of what they said was hid from me, But something like "Necessity" I heard; Thereafter, " Death" a gloomy, threatening word! It sounded hollow, spectrally subdued: Not yet have I my liberty made good: If I could banish Magic's fell creations, And totally unlearn the incantations,--Stood I, O Nature! Man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be!,63 Ere in the Obscure I sought it, such was I,--Ere I had cursed the world so wickedly. Now fills the air so many a haunting shape, That no one knows how best he may escape. What though One Day with rational brightness beams, The Night entangles us in webs of dreams. From our young fields of life we come, elate: There croaks a bird: what croaks he? Evil fate! By Superstition constantly insnared, It grows to us, and warns, and is declared. Intimidated thus, we stand alone.--The portal jars, yet entrance is there none. (Agitated.) Is any one here? CARE. Yes! must be my reply. FAUST. And thou, who art thou, then? CARE. Well,--here am I. FAUST. Avaunt! CARE. I am where I should be. FAUST (first angry, then composed, addressing himself). Take care, and speak no word of sorcery! CARE. Though no ear should choose to hear me, Yet the shrinking heart must fear me: Though transformed to mortal eyes, Grimmest power I exercise. On the land, or ocean yonder, I, a dread companion, wander, Always found, yet never sought, Praised or...