Faust I. [antikvár]

PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN(J'he Lord, the Tleaveniy Host, and later !Mephistopheles. ^he three Archangels come forward and speak.)RaphaelThe sun sings in the ancient major, in song-match with its brother-spheres, and finishes its ordained journey with thunder-crash about their ears. Its face gives strength to all the angels though none of them can fathom why; the inconceivably great work shines, new as on the founding day.QabrielAnd swift, past understanding swift, the splendor of the earth whirls past, changing the paradisial brightness for the night's deepness, shuddering, vast. Broadly the ocean currents, foaming out of the depths, are tossed and swirled, and rocks and water hurde onward forever with the racing worlds.!MichaelAnd tempests bluster in a wager, from sea to land, from land to sea, raging, forging an encoiling chain of deepest energy. A dazzling desolation is flaming1