So was Apollo shepherd-like in feature, That other shepherds were as fair and fleet ; For where in such clear orbit moveth Nature, All worlds in inter-action meet.
Thus hath success my fate and thine attended ; Henceforth behind us let the past be furled ! O, feel thyself from highest God descended ! For thou belongest to the primal world.
434 FAUST.
Thy life shall circumscribe no fortress frowning ! Still, in eternal youth, stands as it stood. For us, our stay with every rapture crowning, Arcadia in Sparta's neighbourhood.
To tread this happy soil at last incited, Thy flight was towards a joyous destiny 1 Now let our throne become a bower unblighted, Our bliss become Arcadian and free !
So was Apollo shepherd-like in feature,
ReplyDeleteThat other shepherds were as fair and fleet ;
For where in such clear orbit moveth Nature,
All worlds in inter-action meet.
Thus hath success my fate and thine attended ;
Henceforth behind us let the past be furled !
O, feel thyself from highest God descended !
For thou belongest to the primal world.
434 FAUST.
Thy life shall circumscribe no fortress frowning !
Still, in eternal youth, stands as it stood.
For us, our stay with every rapture crowning,
Arcadia in Sparta's neighbourhood.
To tread this happy soil at last incited,
Thy flight was towards a joyous destiny 1
Now let our throne become a bower unblighted,
Our bliss become Arcadian and free !