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A fiery chariot borne on nimble wings (from Faust)
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A fiery chariot borne on nimble wings
approaches me. I am prepared to change my course, to penetrate the ether's high dominions toward novel spheres of pure activity. Do you, scarcely better than a worm, deserve this lofty life and heavenly delight? Now be resolute and turn your back on our earth's endearing sun! Be bold and brash ad force the gates from which men shrink and slink away! The time has come to prove by deeds that man will not give in to gods' superior might and will not quake before the pit where fantasy condemns itself to tortures of its own creation when he advances to the narrow passageway about whose mouth infernal flames are blazing. Approach the brink serenely and accept the risk of melting into nothingness.
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