FAUST (Illustrated & Translated into English in the Original Meters). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But ye, God’s sons in love and duty,

       Enjoy the rich, the ever-living Beauty!

       Creative Power, that works eternal schemes,

       Clasp you in bonds of love, relaxing never,

       And what in wavering apparition gleams

       Fix in its place with thoughts that stand forever!

      (HEAVEN CLOSES: THE ARCHANGELS SEPARATE.)

      MEPHISTOPHELES

      (solus)

      I like, at times, to hear The Ancient’s word,

       And have a care to be most civil:

       It’s really kind of such a noble Lord

       So humanly to gossip with the Devil!