Part 46 (1/2)

(Sound of the organ.) EVIL SPIRIT

Wrath takes thee!

The trumpet peals!

The graves tremble!

And thy heart From ashy rest To fiery torments Now again requickened, Throbs to life!

MARGARET

Would I were forth!

I feel as if the organ here My breath takes from me, My very heart Dissolved by the anthem!

CHORUS

Judex ergo c.u.m sedebit, Quidquid latet, ad parebit, Nil inultum remanebit.

MARGARET

I cannot breathe!

The ma.s.sy pillars Imprison me!

The vaulted arches Crush me!-Air!

EVIL SPIRIT

Hide thyself! Sin and shame Stay never hidden.

Air? Light?

Woe to thee!

CHORUS

Quid sum miser tunc dicturus, Quem patronem rogaturus, c.u.m vix Justus sit securus EVIL SPIRIT

They turn their faces, The glorified, from thee: The pure, their hands to offer, Shuddering, refuse thee!

Woe!

CHORUS

Quid sum miser tune dicturus?

MARGARET

Neighbor! your cordial! (She falls in a swoon.)

XXI

WALPURGIS-NIGHT

THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS.

District of Schierke and Elend.

FAUST MEPHISTOPHELES

MEPHISTOPHELES