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MEPHISTOPHELES: On! on! FAUST (_with a bunch of keys and a lamp, before an iron door_): A shudder, long unfelt, comes o'er me; Mankind's collected woe o'erwhelms me, here. She dwells within the dark, damp walls before me, And all her crime was a delusion dear! What! I delay to free her? I dread, once again to see her? On! my shrinking but lingers Death more near. (_He grasps the lock: the sound of singing is heard inside_.)
_My mother, the harlot, Who put me to death; My father, the varlet, Who eaten me hath! Little sister, so good, Laid my bones in the wood, In the damp moss and clay:_ _Then was I a beautiful bird o' the wood; Fly away! Fly away_!