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PARACELSUS
1835
PART
PARACELSUS
Scene.
ASPIRES
Wiir-zburg;
"
environs.
Paracelsus.
Close
thus
in the
1 2
Michal
to
friends
dear
me,
long
though
time
roll
it
Ere
by
again
beat
now
At
least henceforth
Nor
it beats
and
"
quicker,pressed to yours,
perchance a long, long time
my
memories
your
befits their
fragrantas
shall
I'orgiving love
if you
As
'\ll
was
as
would
born
shall
be, you
fitful,strange and
Which
Only
e'er confused
on
moments
well
such
embalm
must
make
in yours
"
free
it there
me
"
home.
home
remember
to
shall
want
memory
,^
^^
hisfrien
As
Quiet
Paracelsus
which,
heart
the
to
close
Come
still closer
Paracelsus,
Festus,
garden
aright,
forget
10
waywardness
dwell
better s])irit,
to
moody
my
such
as
these, dear
friends
PARACELSUS
dis
He
My
More
courses
no
true
"
to
hence,
au
heart
umn
^.^^
^
^_^^^ ^j^.^autumn
For
Its bleak
time,'
pleasant
sunny
my
both
so
is
she
Drop by drop!
content
am
than
more
"
Michal,
Look
up, sweet
Your
stained and
bow
blame
weeping
child !
nor
content
its mute
Nor
frail,
Aureole
Paracelsus.
like
20
frailty.
Michal.
Not
look
would
Autumn
And
some
Liker
was
the less
esteem
droopingvines
their grapes
down.
those
creakingtrees
fruit.
with a ^X^nfter-birth
apple-tree
its wealth among
peepingblooms sprinkled
That
Of
Then
Shall
vex
proudit wears
The
old smile
Tenanted
Grey
old
one
by
wind
that
Ah,
at
both.
length,
lady of this
kingdom, limited
"
wall
populous
green
ever-busyflies.
and shy lizards and quickspiders,
the
crickets
stubble-fieldor
cane-brake,
40
"
appears
A
raved
ever
overlooks you
its berries ?
meet
nest!
Sequestered
by
what
So
Alone
"
30
marsh
and
it
PARACELSUS
bulrush
Of
He
!
whiteningin the sun : laughnow
pictures
in his house,
each one
Fancy the crickets,
or
best, f^-|.^
Looking out, wondering at the world
snail with his gay shell of dew,
Yon painted
friends
balls
the
to see
Travelling
glossy
high up
during his
absence
like gold lamps.
Hung by the caterpillar,
"
Michal.
In
truth
carelessly
well.
and
Paracelsus. And
each, trust
For
lived
have
we
shall,my
"
born
me,
other ;
the
perfectpair!
50
your
nay,
hair, when
very
mixed,
Is of
For
hue.
one
Shall you
wish
And
where
walk, when
two
me
prosperous
in this nook
save
far away.
fortune ? Stay: that
I
am
plant
Shall
never
As
arm
languidand imperial
queen's
Which
scatters
Shall
Some
its tangles
and
lightly
wave
crowns
be reminded
great
broad
success
among
to
predict
to
Saint Saviour's:
Behind
Fcslus.
her
Ah,
softly.
but
lovers,
you
me
see,
the
whollygone,
sinks
sun
at
last!
Tjo
eyes awhile !
You
arc
at
to-night,
ours
you
fij)oke
Of
Michal
Could
and
her tears, I
willingleave what he
thoughtthat
so
seemed
to
none
love
that look
destroys
my dream
As if,where'er
you ga/cd,there stood a star !
far was
How
Wiirzburgwith itschurch and spire
And
and all thingstheycontain,
garden-walls
that look's far alighting
?
From
"
PARACELSUS
Paracelsus.
and
strives
to
And
I but
alike from
looked
'^^^th"'^^
The
beingsI love
From
all rude
That,
when
simplejoyto
best,shut in
like
chances
see
70
well
so
be my
to
spoke
afar,my
lot,
spirit,disposed
soothingthoughts
pleasantfeatures,looks and
To
weary
in
lose awhile its care
Of
them, their
"
words,
"
Needs
nor
hesitate,
Encroachingtrouble may
apprehend
never
Nor
have
And
fashion
even
too,
busy aid
fancy's
to
recourse
reached them
have
wish
in their behalf
80
behold
much
how
our
proves alike !
's beauteous
of all
sense
When
I'^stus
learns
That
every
Affects
As
as
himself;
the world
that I have
90
just
varied
From
Like
That
He
me
of
pleasure
common
"
I shall
act
Though
at
Sweet
convince
may
heaven
and
earth
and
all
thingswere
stake.
Michal
must
not
weep,
our
eve.
parting
PARACELSUS
Festus. True
^'
the
is
eve
and
deepening,
^'
Festus
Se"s
'"^
littleanxious
As
and
talk
beginour
to
^j^j^ ^^^^
1 could hint of it
As
As
though to-morrow
we
pacedarm-in-arm
At
sun-dawn
chamber
In that dim
Or
in
some
awful
even-blush
Have
I full leave
to
peer
around
tomes
all
lane unbosom
grassy
From
the noon-streaks
where
by the
Half-frightened
fits
while)
with
busied
(Trithemius
town
whisperit by
could
or
the cheerful
midnight: but,to-morrow
tell my
to
mind
inmost
no
We
"
Oh,
Paracelsus.
Devise
To
Be
My
be
test
some
of
love,some
say
you : say
spent the while, the better !
wondrous
plansand dreams
If
on
feat
arduous
for
performed
on
night
Recall how
oft
hopes and
and
fears
Have
"
Recall,and
Your
And
true
you, oh no!
wearied
never
never
vividly now.
as
when
born
affection,
its green
as
"
liinsiedeln
hills were
to
us
120
nightwhich ends
My further stay at Wijrzburg. Oh, one day
You shall be very proud! Say on, dear friends
And
stillincreasing
to this
Festus.
'Tis
In truth ?
for my
proper peace,
indeed.
Rather
To
Is
Of
than
stay your
fadingeven
some
far
yours;
course
now,
I said my
latest hope
story tells
to
embassy despatched
win
PARACELSUS
Paracelsus
favour of
The
an
eastern
'X'he gifts
they offered
king,and how
130
provedbut dazzlingdust
native
his clime.
to
seem
No
whit
Has
part.
Paracelsus.
To
save
Once
more
Alas !
our
Paracelsus. Dear
Festus,hear
Yet
And
To
bid
how
140
pursuit.
live,
RejectGod's
me
die !
so
love's sake
weak
Informed
aught which
From
men
But
in
you
Taught
And
not
but
first,
out
me
born
shrank
apart from
151
now
That,
marked
was
I would
Lost
long
spirit
hoped
in
Even
of the self-same
cherishing
patient
would quell
now
; as though a mother
of the child
stay the lustymanhood
Once
is
What
me.
it you wish ?
That I should layaside my heart's
Abandon
the sole ends for which I
You
I foretold.
As
Festus. A
It
from
to
know
that I
my
am
mankind
and
strong and
soul,I
know
full of
myself:
hope.
rejectall aims
words made plain
to me,
brink of my design.
can
PARACELSUS
I would
When
And
Festus
triumphin
in their voices
gladcheer
have
"
!
pondersgravely
To
^f Festus
When
Festtis.
hear my
purpose
Hear
all this
you
Paracelsus.
Beforehand
deign
it ?
can
conference
evening's
say
what
his with
Faith
will
God's
mine.
two
no
each
Next,
should be acted
best
as
on
faiths e'er
of
us
we
agreed
allows
may
170
I venture
to submit
Accordingly,
My plan,in lack of better,for pursuing
authorise.
to
The
path which God's will seems
Well, he discerns much good in it,avows
This motive worthy,that hope plausible,
A dangerhere to be avoided, there
in fine
An
:
to be repaired
oversight
minds go together all the good
Our two
Approved by him, I gladlyrecognise,
180
All he counts
discard,
bad, I thankfully
And
naught forbids my lookingup at last
"
I'or
some
stray comfort
innate and
inex])licable
germ
failure in my scheme ;
this
the
It all amounts
to
Of
"
That
we
devote
ourselves
so
that
at
last
sovereign
jiroof
to God, is seen
living
justas though no God there were ;
A life which, ])rompted
by the sad and lilinl
I'"
100
oilyof man, Festus abhors the most;
these tenets
at once,
liut which
sanctify
In
PARACELSUS
Festus
Though
to
persistsConsider
in his
""
it how
they may.
Is it so, Festus ?
kindly: is it so ?
Mkhal.
He
the same,
speaksso calmlyand
visions
Paracelsus. Rejectthose glorious
God's
man's
And
of
love
should
that God
design; laughloud
send
Vast
direct
to
longings
Power
The
us
well,and
ambiguous warfare
But this
cry
To
how
to
it.
answer
Wearies
Festus.
That
soon
satiates these,or
world's
say how
so
200
To
Never
to
sorrow
creed
a new
Erringlyapprehended,
111 understood,begotrash trust in you,
Had
share in your undoing.
Choose
Paracelsus.
Hold
or
I dare
Because
Nor
renounce
shrink when
where
peril
act
to
own
your
views.
that
to
me
espy
Prove
but that !
"
210
abide
you
their warrant,
labour laid
God's
on
onward, nor
they point
success.
they most ensure
Festus. Prove
Within
but meanwhile
your side.
blame me not
on
presumptuous boast
nor
you
of all,
and, most
you
covet
will
affect,
now
lead
To
its attainment
Nay,
count
"
and
the minutes
I bid you
tillyou
speed,
venture
forth !
PARACELSUS
smile
You
slow He
gatheredfrom
had
but
If^f^
thought"
Much
musingon
friend
the fortunes of my
220
could not be urged in vain ;
Matter I deemed
need : in shreds
at my
But it all leaves me
what remains.
And
fragmentsI must venture
Michcil. Ask
should
at
scorn
Festus, wherefore
once,
,
"
he
And
This
is
Festus.
of yours,
ill-considered choice
no
fancyof
ardent
boy.
words alone
Not from your own
confiding
heart long since 230
I aware
Am
your passionate
birth to, nourished and at lengthmatures
Gave
1 will not speak of Liinsiedeln,
This scheme.
born your elder by some
I was
Where
years
first
from the
:
Only to watch you fully
No
sudden
In all
beside,our
Even
then
As
you
Which
With
had
your own
filledit when,
tumultuous
Of
of
portion
those
Came
To
so
his lore
favoured
condescends
not
one
you
239
to
few
teach
youth
now
despise,
resolved,like you.
you came,
all,and retain all,and deserve
as
jointhe
and
wish,
your dearest
left with me
crown
favoured,whom
earnest
grasp
fixed
you in my view
soul and those intents
to
were
have
to
heart, you
home
toil a
15ypatient
In
to
tasks
here, Trithemius
Whom,
A
mutual
'twas mine
"
childhood's
Our
an
matched
wide
ardour
;
'twas
to
his
renown
like his.
the old
sup])lant8
and strange,
significant
soul's content
at length
which
PARACELSUS
lo
traces
With
the To
see
growing
p^yni
of Para-
1"'"O"^
celsus To
prize,
250
"
blank idleness,
yet
of a
dull stagnation
The
unlike
most
soul,content.
That
Even
of contempt
Once
it ceased to seek
for what
"
but
Maintained
that
outbreaks,fierce and
rare
brief,
261
the hidden
Revealed
curbed
quickly
as
scorn,
"
of past defeat.
in contempt,
ready acquiescence
ostentatious show
That
That
I deemed
other
no
shivered sword, of
His
Upon
letting
go
than the
about
one
spring
to
not
thus
broodingpurpose then.
For after-signs
disclosed,what you confirmed,
Not
looked your
that way
preparedto
task
the uttermost
That
you
Your
in furtherance of
strength,
Which
"
Their
most
own
puny
to
270
certain aim
name
efforts
"
was
so
vast
placeof
In
Of
"
man,
That
many,
and man's
you,
"
not
the
true
of the world.
and fate.
purpose, path
secret
nursingas
purpose, with
Have
soul.
mere
vague
dream
This
You
this,if all
heart
following,
280
and
PARACELSUS
You, if a
man
Of
dare
may,
to
aspire
and
be, not
Blendingtherewith
an
kind,
to
elsewhere
Devotion
to
sustain you
alien end
fear
or
joy
nor
move
betray:
Thus
you aspire.
You
Paracelsus.
I should
differfrom
not
speakof.
You
shall not
no
profess
In the selection of my
My ready answer
Who
summons
Whose
290
dreamy crew
share
other
this
lot,than
All
be his organ.
to
me
to
innate
the
it thus
state
them
strengthsupports
shall
succeed
No
Such
Festus.
God
sets
before you
That
he
Than
the desire
With
The
you, the
natural end
And
hold such
appointno
and
the
aim, then,
of
praise
Attains the
to
and
service of
man,
man
"
Yet this,the
end, is not
Presume
to
not
the instrument.
God
serve
so
that
theydo
you
my
de-
signates
host
hope nor
no
woe,
Nor
and
that in itselfalone
Mostlyin this,
Shall its reward
know
And
faith
PARACELSUS
12
but Shall
I cannot
questions
his
meet
to
annex
such
steadfast
will,
create
intense hoi)e ; nor let your gifts
of ordinarymeans
Scorn or neglect
An
_"rnncp
Conducive
to
destiny
endeavour.
Now,
make
success,
man's
Dispensewith
dare
you search
Your
inmost
Whether
have
you
not
security
you discern
the fulfilment of your purpose
its existence
The
pathto
? whether
again,that purpose
out
to be singled
yearning
Clear
as
that jiurpose
Clear
as
your
and
"
Dare
its pursuer.
For
320
For
Of
avow
candidly
heart, and
answer
you
this ?
a
pause~\. No,
\_after
Paracelsus
I have
nought to fear
The
Who
though
if Indeed the strong desire
break
Eclipsethe aim in me ? if splendour
It be
so
?
"
330
"
Upon
duskest
And
of my pathalone.
What
shade succeed ?
the outset
Shall 1
to
require
my
fairer seal
authentic mission
Than
"
"
By
the
How
But
That
To
no
broad
course,
Without
To
of
security
success
works
within
me
Is it for human
own,
34"
will
? stillless,
impulses
should
! What
their promj)tings
disregard
institute such
"
PARACELSUS
13
Do, keptamong
Your
Ne'er
dooms
to
the
waste
strengthhe
mission
the
Into the
once
fear
Their
That
holdinglighthis charge,when
is a
finds that charge delayed,
This
can
These
Arts,
Great Works,
Let
others
Connects
To
do
me
my
idle
hence
arts
Sublime,forsooth
intimate
too
; and
trust
prize:
every hour
death.
new
God
"
tie
our
To
"
Think,
think!
sprung
The
^^^^
deignsj^-^
impart!
Ask
Para-
the wide
where
i'.ast,
all Wisdom
brightSouth, where
North,
37"
she dwelt
the
ful
hope-
PARACELSUS
14
Festus
All
passedo'er
are
questions
it
"
lightson
'I'is
me
^\^^^^Q
j.^^j
New
animate
hopes should
,,',,-
method
,,,
Should
Weighed
i-
from
dawn
down
reveahngs
new
light
world, new
the
to
race
so
long;
long,forgotten
so
thus
shall
The
reserved for
heaven
whom
Creatures
But ardent
Not
seldom
Festus.
at
unwonted
last receive
blind,
splendours
blaze
to
beams
Whose
no
us
not
pilgrimage,
blessed their
seldom
380
fate and
faint stand
make
Call this,truth
Againstyour glowingperiods.
Why not pursue it in a fast retreat,
of Learning's
Some
palaces.
one
many
After approved
example? seekingthere
with the great dead, soul to soul,
Calm converse
"
"
laid up
Who
"
treasure
less confused.
much
Might do
From
But
An
Of
What
The
at
at
!
"
fresh eye,
their
390
but left
a
fresh hand.
;
waning-point
vigour's
new-hearted
new-breathed
with
Succeeding
force.
As
true
inextricable,
Pronounced
Far
knots
snatched
old games the runner
still: this way success
runner
the torch
might be.
enterprise,
coupledwith your
scheme
self-repugnant
arbitrary
you
have
are
in the desert ?
of her
in
yearning
Writes
vast
caves
the
sea
401
PARACELSUS
15
and
reproves
"
410
"
Or
Athens,
"
practice,
Rejecting
precept.
past example,
Aidless 'mid these he thinks to stand alone :
round the Stagirite
Thick like a glory
Your rivalsthrong,
the sages : here stand you !
is not
Whatever you may protest,knowledge
Paramount in your love ; or for her sake
420
You would collectallhelpfrom every source
Rival,assistant,
friend,
foe,all would merge
In the broad class of those who showed her
"
haunts.
And
those who
showed
tliem
not.
nature.
So became manifest.
I knew
not
then
PARACELSUS
i6
Paracelsus
At
^.^."
Were
timations
of
What
Coming
great His
destinyThe
and
in
some
"
"
true
the ages
great trance
tilldawned
goingall the while
laid away
they spokewho
words
kept watch
record
by
his
bed,"
of the breath so light
might tell more
and the fingers
light
440
Upon my eyelids,
is
confused
Youth
; yet never
Among my liair.
that spirit
I but, when
So dull was
passed,
I turned to him, scarce
turns
as
consciously,
his sleep.
fairies cross
A water-snake when
And
having this within me and about me
itsmountains,lakes and woods
While Einsiedeln,
what oppressive
Confined me
joy was mine
and I first viewed
the,
life grew
When
plain,
thronged,
!
of mankind
The everlasting
concourse
Believe that ere I joinedthem, ere 1 knew
450
Then
"
The
purpose
in its ranks
Consignedme
Wonder
'Twas
was
place
while,justawake.
of the pageant, or
freshest and
"
the
delightmost
pure
"
of the crowd,
brightest
of them all.
with the proudest
A portion
And
from the tumult in my breast,this only
A
station with
Could
the
that
collect,
must
thenceforth die
myselffar,far above
I seemed to long 460
The gorgeous spectacle.
mankind,
At once
to trample
on, yet save
To make
some
unexampledsacrifice
wondrous
In their behalf,
to wring some
good
winning
From
heaven or earth for them, to perish,
Or
elevate
PARACELSUS
As
to
be mixed
to
never
with
in my
Describes
his
its cloud,
from
so
men
much
own
In my own
largess.Once the
from their oflSciouspraise,
I would withdraw
Would
Like
thanks.
gently
put aside their profuse
a wilderness,
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; suffice it,that
As weak
comparedwith them, yet feltsomehow
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brooding,takingshape510
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it and more,
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said
"
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Even from thy strength.Consider : hast thou
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on
Presumptuously
No veil between ; and can thy faltering
hands,
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their task
radiance
as
earnest
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ne'er distracted ?
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their
choose
fortune,
their
life
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eyes
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by splendour.Let
each
task present
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19
idol of thine
some
Know,
their array.
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become
to
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to
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star
for
less.
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worth
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who
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by me.
'
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for my sake and
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by thee.
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sealed
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was
when
And
his
own.
change in
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I haste
birtii,
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undazzled some
one
truth,
contemplate
the Its
and effects alone
at once
bearings
"t^^^^^ ^^^ ^ speckexpandsinto a star,
thus,
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Till I
I go to prove my soul !
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near
not
craze.
his hail
sent
sleet or stifling
fireballs,
blinding
snow.
I
some
time, his good time, shall arrive :
guidesme and the bird. In his good time!
Michal. Vex him no further,
Festus; it is so!
This
Festus. Just thus you help me
ever.
would
Were
hold
it the trackless
air,and
Inviting
you, distinct with
Of many
a mighty marcher
You
But
path
footprints
yet
not
gone
than
At
Remain.
Paracelsus.
!
light
that way.
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the
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best
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seen
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;
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Mountains
where
sleepthe
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unsunned
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tarns
set
out
as
ere
prevailed
to seek
gallantly
now.
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yet
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heard
I have
Their
ruin.
Avow
all hitherto
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of such
but
Nay, Festus,when
Michal.
pilgrims
the
as
Festus
yields
fallen.
failed and
have
yourself
faint
have
too
And
tread
spent
in that act,
chance
lifewas
prayer
went
blotted
out
memories,
as
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"
so
by death.
so
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so
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let in
better light
more
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sages'way.
familiar paths. Perchance
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in an
perished
Ages ago ; and
one
life the
more
once
I almost dream
times
at
For
old
and them
that
rightly,
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see
it
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seems
more
once
The
"
Michal.
Then
Aureole
is God's
commissary!
all for
he shall
and
fc great
grand
"
and
'' Paracelsus.
well
never
No,
If I
grand.
but there
will be served
Festus.
us
Look
spot, here,
well
by
those
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our
to
can
sweet!
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serve.
this ; here
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plague-
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22
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Disguiseit how
This
'Tis
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contempt
of love
^"'^^
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spot
'
that
our
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blotch
:
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ir
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humbly
probe
to
human
from
the first
love ?
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their
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overlooked.
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kind, as
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be
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praise
po])ular
nor
efforts,
particular
approval
Your
much.
aside ; alone
you ; put reward
You shall go forth upon your arduous task,
None shall assist you, none
partakeyour toil.
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None
share your
Some
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cast
encircle
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me
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to
triumph: stillyou
your gloryon, to
it should
seem
watched
for me
to fail,
so
Impossible
By gentlefriends who made my cause their own.
the great gift,
They should ward off fate'senvy
Extravagantwhen claimed by me alone,
to them
as well as me.
Being so a gift
If dangerdaunted me
seduced,
or
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How
calmlytheir sad eyes should gaze reproach!
M'lchal. O Aureole, can I singwhen all alone.
in my fancy,both
firstcalling,
Without
And
I !
To listen by my side
even
you ?
Do you not fee! this ?
Say that you feel this !
that my aims,
Paracelsus. I feel 'tis pleasant
at length
"
"
PARACELSUS
to need
supposed
!
in these goodlyhelps
strengthening
further
My
If weak,
To
No
In
apes at once.
if human, therefore weak
'
sages say,
givemyselfentire
by its side,all else
need
more
pursuit
; and
but little
I deny myself
!
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For
reward
no
any tie ;
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man
"
nor
to
his kind
unbound
of theirs,
do so. Aureole !
them
to
No
"
There
Of
are
the
Even
almost
Say,say
For
her, not
to
for
God
!
myself
to
Whom
in
rejoice
should
I have
who
my success
I love but both
this,you,
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this
overlook
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like you ?
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Festus.
liut know
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Paracelsus.
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be
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24
Michal
warns
"
Para-
against
success
the trees :
pleasant
sun, among
beingknowing not what love is. Hear
the
Beneath
y^^
Annexed
To
to
them
gatherround
And
Such
with
their need
dream
that
On
but
lightly,
objects
you prize
Or
heart's sole
die
I know
That
at most
treasure
to
live
can
men
common
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brow, thoughin
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's
no
alternative
"
stay with
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should be humble
us
An
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dare
judgeyou.
not
thus
you
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one
bold
one
us
all
cast
those
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aside,
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; you
it scowls
another
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curb not
bind us ; therefore,
Than
glance!
'Tis best aspire.Once mingledwith
Michal.
Stay with us. Aureole !
hopes away,
Of
And
make
which
the affections
An
There
feel,
votaries.
passionate
joy in this or no,
ever
Beauteous
inspiring
never
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their will
their
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endowed
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me
me,
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proud:
plaguesfor
very
Warns
"
me
to
have
in dread
no
quickrepulse,
:
slow defeat,but a complete
success
!
so
You will find all you seek, and perish
No
Paracelsus
barren
a
pause^. Are
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of my
firstfruits
quest ?
these
the
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25
tells
truth
how
He
hour
such
many
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What
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In
swervingnothingfrom
! and
See, the great moon
Were
wide awake, I was
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at
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am
like
to
the untried
By
firstresolves.
my
the mottled
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last in all
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this
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us
is truth.
clear perceptionwhich
jK'rfect,
carnal mesh
and perverting
baffling
This
"
it,and makes
Binds
Rather
believe.
all.
in fulness; and around,
it in, 730
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centre
truth abides
Where
But, friends,
Truth
Wall
disesteemed.
lightly
not
all error
and
to
know
consists in
openingout a way
the im])risoned
Whence
splendour
may escape,
in effecting
Than
entry for a light
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to be without.
narrowly
Su])])osed
The
demonstration
And
you
And
source
vast,
trace
back
within
of
the effluence
us
where
to
its spring
broods
radiance
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26
tillTo
chance
makes
an
outlet
"
born,
As
littleknows
he what
have
oft grown
And
To
men
die case-hardened
careless
Whose
Of
years
unremitted
unlocks
their fount
old among
in their
their books
ignorance.
promisedwhat long
youth had
labour ne'er
;
performed
idle day.
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loiterers justas fancyfree
To autumn
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As the midges in the sun, givesbirth at last
as
producedmysteriously
cape
To
truth
Of
cloud grown
"
lodgedalike in all,
film
? some
the highest
slight
as
bar which binds a soul
interposing
the idiot,
makes
justas makes the sage
film removed, the happy outlet whence
Hence,
The
The
And
Some
out
may
lowest
not
truth be
!
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In manhood, clogged
by sickness,back compelled
Truth
issues
What
Oh,
not
we
alone when
have
to
life flows
last by death
enthrones
penetrate?
do
still,
truth
And
When
body
"
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hunger,watch-
or
"
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Unmoved
Of
what
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great
he
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^^
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race
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put forth just
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true-hearted
Gifted alike,all eagle-eyed,
beat thine angelsyet !
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cannot
All
Such
is my
I go
task.
"
gatherthis
to
The
Mine
is
mad
no
find the
And,
those who
of the
nature
build
to
attempt
taught betimes
world
set
themselves
they bore.
spirit
that
dreams
Were
onlyborn
Refused
But
to
chose
to
fitthem
to
to
other frames
And
all
dream
another
for their
meet
in this
its narrow
forth
figure
And
vanish
Tlius
life.
sphere.
world
vast
desires,"
lifescorned
was
life
Shall yet be crowned
And
but
800
twine
!
priest
with
all for yielding
amaranth
! I
lively
spirit
*o
am
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28
An
youth
squanderevery energy
toys.
^^^Convertible to good, on painted
though
Breath-bubbles, gildeddust ! And
earnest
"^
with
poor existence,parting
those who
Like
spurn
adventitious
All
aims, from empty praise
To love's award, yet whoso deems such helps
himself for me,
and concerns
Important,
May know even these will follow with the
As in the steadyrolling
Mayne, asleep
Yonder,
My
is mixed
affections laid
own
Will
subdued
purified,
waken
"
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ore.
awhile.
rest
to
alone
Till then
By
of schistous
its mass
rest
tillthen
"
of a page
loitering
Ah, the time-wiling
Through bower and over lawn, tilleve shall bring
he loves
lady'spresence whom
stately
of the fisher whose rough coat
The broken sleep
pearl these are faint types !
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"
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one
All
Do
mortal
to
told
! I have
thing,Festus, Michal
But
say
this ?
believe I shall accomplish
you
Festus.
I do
believe !
I
Michal.
Those
Paracelsus.
from
This
earnest
my
ever
words
did believe !
shall
never
Two
brain !
fade !
never
"
when,
when,
beggar,he prepares
to
he rises with
])rince,
Festus, I plunge!
One
fade
Are
One
out
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PART
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Scene.
the house
Constantinople;
"
Conjurer.
of
Greek
1521
Paracelsus
Over
the
The
sun
the
With
Turk
length
Possess
Have
and
and
'Tis
to
me
won
this
act
o'er
unwrecked
voyage
done
as
runs
more
cheat
cloud
yon
many
last.
at
sallow
'Tis
j^jg
minarets.
no
celsus
gold
between,
and
juggles of
the
"
Should
of domes
aching sight !
my
Strange
of
city, which
memorial,
lie, sullen
There
sphere
the
Like
in
as
Para-
West
vaporous
of the
arm
all that
Athwart
the
down
goes
Behind
in
waters
10
mountain-
top
And
break
Come
to
molehill.
upon
dared
have
knowledge
with
pause
scan
for
once
The
To
All
extent
1 have
brilliant
above
to
regard
fairlycom])utc
clearly gained
future
without
tor
supj)lyand
excluding
jierfect
once
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gains
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3"
crude
and
and conjectures
half-gains
and All
inscribes And
hopes:
fortune-tellerwills
19
his Ufe's
j^jg credulous seekers should inscribe thus much
results
life'sattainment,in his roll,
rj^^j^^j^
previous
all because
his
Before
promisedsecret,
up the
Make
and
sum
as
here
he vaunts,
amid the scrawled
Uncouth
Old
note
lands
stranger wandered long throughmany
And
reapedthe fruit he coveted in a few
The
"
And
chronicle
yet those blottlngs
No
life
"
life!
Nothing
my
problemfor the fancy,but a life
whole
and
life,
to
do,
this
'
concerning life ?
Time
fleets,youth fades,life is an empty
dream,"
Remembrancer
'
40
It is the echo
of time
'
down
set
and
heart
he whose
human
heart,whose
human
tongue,
living
yet
Recall when
he
Nevertheless
long seasons
was
knew
can
not
him
pass o'er
speech
never
this.
PARACELSUS
Till
some
hour's
one
It
nothing,
seemed, could
An
altered brow
Attest that
"
Time
As
as
! I
the
adage true
is
empty
an
can
go no
I must
keep on
shrinking
cannot
let my
now,
farther
this
time
well
desist and
the
stretch
hour
same
be !
or
ill,
chance.
take my
:
'tis no
back-
"
For
let but
some
beam,
assurance
some
close
and I proceed
60
visible,
At any price,
it,to die.
though closing
The old Greek's prophecy
here I pause.
I'llse,
To
my
Is like
toil grow
to
turn
His
chamber
Was
it the
out
true
tillI know
wind
light
'
I shall
what
not
quit
I desire !
sea
'
An
Where
To
And
has it
con-
templates
and
chronicler,
any
'Tis done.
I
He
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brave
well
what
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fleets,youth fades,life
my
Now
experienceshows
he knows
now
dream."
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31
70
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32
draw
leaving To
the event
to
God
some
Neither
to
But
rest !
jTygjj jj,failure,
And
and
power
in truth
rest
hoped that
recompense
...
once
Has all
so deep ?
insensibly
Been undergonefor this ? This the request
to present
me
My labour qualified
What,
With
sunk
fear of refusal?
no
Had
80
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choose
mood
humbler
No,
worst
The
have
task
rest
is God's
To
know
By
my
event
this ; no,
after
performedmy
share
there needs
no,
At
to
not
all.
of the
90
concern
work.
mine, merelythis,
held
obstinately
that I have
own
The
brave foot
mortal whose
far
so
trod, unscathed,the temple-court
That he descries at lengththe shrine of shrines,
Must let no sneeringof the demons' eyes.
Has
fasten now
unquailing,
he could pass
Whom
no,
no
"
fall down
at last.
stagger, faint,
charm
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to baffle them
; behold,
Serene
not
must
Having
He
power
amid
mortal
thus
ventures
and
glooms!
henceforth,if he wake up
priest
god of the placeto ban and blast him there,
If he be
The
Both
well !
What's
failure or
success
to
me
PARACELSUS
33
He
sacrSic
of my
obligation
The
no
of my wildest bond.
The contemplation
Which gave my nature freely
up, in truth.
But in its actual state, consenting
fully
formed
soil
its
was
All
impulses
passionate
not
To rear, should wither ; but foreseeing
barrenness,
The tract, doomed to perpetual
Would seem
one
day,remembered as it was,
it is,
sand-waste which now
Beside the parched
Alreadystrewn with faintblooms,viewless then.
120
I ne'er engagedto root up loves so frail
'tisvery plain
Some soft spotshad their birth in me at first.
time
If not love,
say, like love : there was a
When
yet this wolfish hungerafter knowledge
love's claims aside.
Set not remorselessly
I feltthem
not
yet now,
why
which
ICinsiedeln,
now, and Wiir/.burg
This
heart
Forsakes
human
was
her
to
course
once,
or
fold as with
recall
the
an
Maync
arm
his praise
my poor Festus,with
And counsel and grave fears where is he now
With the sweet
maiden,longago his bride ? 131
at least,
that last night,
loved them
I surely
better. I am
When
we
gone ! gone ! the
saved
And
Festus
"
"
II
tells
PARACELSUS
34
of the Till action
tyranny
of his
Purgingmy
the
"Wi-aring
that
I bear
Whose
I
lifeconsist of
master,
was
of a
memory
I
small events
o'er the
ran
gone
made
I have
Ere
destroyed.No, I have
of aught
pathsuccessively
was
idea
one
up tillthat was
life
pleasant
treasure
140
born,
tillone
morn
littlegrassy fields,
seven
the
Startling
Poor
future
To
The
greatestand
And
since that
All is
The
vast
Through
career
its existence
To
The
of the
shows
ministers of
Not
A
wondrous
For
From
some
tyrant all-
one
to
sorrow
be wrung
or
thence,
:
delight
one
151
interspace,
chain of thought,
keptup
adverse
apparently
and shadow,
life,
death,light
bare receptacles
world, were
indices of truth
Or
forgotten
;
fillsup the
unbroken
a
earth.
onlystep between
the end
Absorbing aim
One
on
morn
and
outset
become
to
man
glorious
most
day,one
one
plans,
truth would
mountains
roughwith
she went.
dimly beacon me
flitand
pines,and
160
wink
"
On
I
see
the robe
now
then
saw
robe ;
the form.
170
PARACELSUS
Which
from
parts me
that
35
of
happy strip
land
and
of
bitter-
And
^^e
happy stripa sun shone, too !
fainter gleamsit as the waves
rough,f^^yj.g
grow
And
stillmore
o'er that
But
faint
the
as
sea
widens
last
on
dead
"
bitter ; very
Oh,
bitter !
And
bitter.
To fear a deepercurse, an inner ruin.
the last turningthe first
Plague beneath plague,
Let me
To lightbeside its darkness.
189
weep
My youthand
In
which
tears
its brave
burn !
secret
startling
Some
more
all dead
hojjcs,
Would
in their
were
and gone.
sure
to
win
stead,a tincture
youth,or breed
til!thoy change
Gold, or
To opalshafts!
onlythat,hurlingit
Indignantback, I might convince myself
My aims remained supreme and ])ure as ever !
I'-vcn now,
why not desire,for mankind's sake.
Of
force
to
"
That
Shut
if I
out
this hideous
mockery
from
my
200
heart !
PARACELSUS
36
He
fears
some-
thing
'Twas
Full consummation
As
man,
of
you had
that is gone
strength
; and
these you boast.
210
Already in the getting
who should say
Do not they seem
to laugh,
as
Great master, we are here indeed,draggedforth
To light
Now,
; this hast thou done : be glad!
A
certain share
"
'
seek
The
strengthto
I
getting!
use
which
thou
spent in
hast
'
And
Thus
To
yet 'tismuch,
to
feed
have
a
fire meant
to
hold
out
tillmorn
light
; and lo,
and day dawns not !
I have heaped up my last,
And
I am
left with grey hair,faded hands, 220
And
furrowed brow.
Ha, have I, after all,
of my breast ?
Mistaken
the wild nursling
pense
Knowledge it seemed, and power, and recomArrived
with
inexhaustible
"
Was
siie who
Who
laid my
The
When
God
God
Mind
glidedthroughmy
head
on
room
of
nights.
"
! Thou
art
should be
mind
Unto
the master-mind
precious.Sparemy mind
endure ; if,as I stand
alone !
231
PARACELSUS
37
IT'
erpass lire
And
if no
trace
j^^^^^
of the wind
thin corpse at pleasure
level with the air.
In these brightchambers
Save
See thou
fail.
spirit
if my
But
it !
to
forsake me
proudspirit
?
thou done well by me
My
at
once
Hast
Crush
Hold
not
my
crushed !
And
say
My
law.
Men
be
I crushed
'
"
thou !
not
of thy seraphs
frequence
before the
me
So do
God, though
dear
mind,
last,239
the
must
their
know
not
:
strength
behold
Weak
he had
raised himself!
'
toils and
man's
welfare
Throughout
dost
wanderings,
intend
To
work
through
weak
my
endeavour,
To
forehead with
my mortal
thine own
blindingcrown, to
crown
I'Vom
beam
250
smile,and
guide
This
Be
influx of
were
Thus
new
"
hear
j)Ower,
marvel then
no
far,a
man
let
me
an
! I
so
covet
angel'ssou/
l)ut I have
"
wrought
;
reac/ied
conclude,a
me
not
man
firstenergy.
that invincible faith,but only one!
Give
Of
and
styledmy work,
An
It
hand
puny
That
but
one
I may
hour
cover
of my
with
an
cries
*" ^"^
renew
\
^A
J
Arestrictions, and i die ;
remain
of my career
"
and
eagle-glance
*"
PARACELSUS
38
And
But
Had
reached
Too
much
me
firc-labarum
deemed
not
was
of these walls.
natural,
monstrous
: yet, tilllate,
my course
that delight,
So ardently
me,
engrossed
and reflecting
A pausing
270
joy,'tis plain,
worn
Could find no placein it. True, I am
;
life has
if my
It has been
Then,
But
been
not
is lifeitself?
who
clothes summer,
!
that created all things,
renew
can
who
God,
me
then, though after-lifeto please
And
Must
have
likeness
no
flower from
bursts the
As
hinders
to
of toil,
out
as
changed
springing
from
Reward
now
and
earth
and
root
stalk.?
What
use
unless
punishment,
were
Be
No
man
could
ever
offend
as
sin
that first!
know
me
some
I have done
voice
from ivithin.~]
[^jI
voice,perchanceI heard
Long ago, but all too low,
I hear
So that
scarce
If the voice
I heard
The
care
were
it in my
waters
it stirred
real
or
no
youth when
of my
first
life outburst
ebbs faint,
I hear
their stream
But, now
That
voice,stilllow, but fatal-clear
"
As
ever
meant
280
PARACELSUS
Should
gifts
to,
do
Those
So,
but who,
As
if these leaned
To
take
'
me
this
With
Come,
"
come,
! for
come
thy home.
we
Will
not
So
sank
We
who
300
we
last
And
living
yet, hast life o'erpast.
altogether
we, thy peers.
Will
pardoncrave
Who,
Whose
With
those who
Who
gaze
Yet
chose
we
Couidst
Must
Die
And
"
thee
the richness
Where
Not
utter,
not
make
one
with
singone
our
310
speak
too
weak.
li])s,
shouldst redeem
all a dream
birth])Iacc
ran
to
flowers
for grace ?
man's and ours?
song
one
blossom
more
recreant
unexerted
more.
more.
no
Our
Yet
to
no
shouldst
which
message
Refused
but work
on
trusted thou
we
The
watch
to
his
race
])Ower8,
joinus, leavingas he found
tells
*|*^
failed
deavour.
en-
"
troop make
wan
our
291
off
cast
mourn
and
"'
proud,refused
used
his work, or lightly
failed through weak
or
gifts,
Great
To
the
save
39
320
PARACELSUS
40
He
What
paleghostsstrove to
shades did glanceand
our
their
As
Before
wast
pass
nightand day ?
thee
Thou
say,
blind
as
were
we
dumb
330
O come!
therefore,
come,
should we
clothe,how arm the spirit
How
Shall next
thy post of life inherit
How
guard him from thy speedyruin ?
Tell us of thy sad undoing
Here, where we sit,ever pursuing
Our
task, ever renewing
weary
Once
more,
"
far from
Sharp sorrow,
Our
and
powers,
Art
ha !
our
man
Thy
mine
not
'
save
wouldst
shall save
be, here
at
last?
the world
Stay,fix thine
341
on
eyes
wouldst
Thou
gave
enters.
king that
thou
who
they could
Aprile
Ha,
God
be
king?
ha!
crouchest not?
on
mme
Ha,
king?
Pararelsus.
I
So
not
my
lair
Art
!
whollyunavailing
thee
fierce spasms compelled
is
torture
Have
why
not
from
thou
Myselfof
Am
the sage
thy
PARACELSUS
41
firm,
littleclearer,
more
strength
With
sighta
Who
robes him
in my
miscon-
crown
?
a weakness, a neglect
justa fault,
with the surmise
trusted God
I scarcely
and thou didst hear
That such might come,
For
351
the
while !
Thine
Aprile.
eyes
are
lustrelessto mine
my
hair
lips.
mc,
dear
comest
Tell
Yes, 'tislike
siren's !
The
wherefore
master,
solemn
thoughtthy
hast attained !
thou
songs
would
now
thou
have
their
meed
In
360
after-time;that
in thee and
Exult
While
laid
was
Paracelsus.
thy praise.
in my grave.
forgotten
Ah
echo
with
(lend,I
thee, I
know
am
not
thy dupe !
Reapingmy
follow in my
sowing,as I scorned
The
sown
Thou
harvest
Thou
As
track,
to
by
sages
to
reaj)
passedaway.
searcher,cautious strivcr.
Ay,
To
the sober
art
thou
hast
searched
striven !
or
To
ordained
art
Degrade
me
after
all,370
"
not
Thou
envy
shall be
king!
Each
I will sit
Q^jjgj.
PARACELSUS
42
Paracelsus.
"
am
thy kingindeed.
That
"
born
deem'st
Thou
Apr'tle.
a
dowered
spirit,
as
even
thou,
for
"
"
"
love
Oh
How
I know
see
infinitely
ye who
armed
shall I look
me
on
Ah,
such cost,
all of ye
at
even
yet on me ?
your gifts
moonstruck
Paracelsus. (Ah,'tissome
With
after all !
creature
PARACELSUS
Such
fond fools as
like
are
43
doubtless
contagion,
They spread
To
echo
So
forebodingof my
one
that
truly,
...
matter
no
this den
haunt
to
how
]^?J*J
yet he seemed
heart
carved
he stands
How
With
Has
he,
too, missed
cause
?)
be calm !
charge thee,by thy fealty,
what thou wouldst be, and what
Tell me
I
Apnle.I would
First:
The
I would
forms
love
and be
infinitely,
loved.
am.
420
carve
of earth.
calm amid
His
ever
very
hand
right
the
throng,
hid beneath
his robe
by
liverypassionsprung
"
from
man,
conceived
by
man,
I express and
blend with others
Would
in one
form,
struggling
form.
Or show
by an ungainly
repressed
mightyspirit
Oh, if you marvelled at some
Or
he
PARACELSUS
44
and
With
painted,Kven
and
sung
fitframe
"
to work
unconsciously
should be moved
Yqu
its will
execute
to
no
its will
"
less beside
strong
some
'
and
wastes.
which, when
Lakes
breaks
morn
their
on
ing
quiver-
bed,
like
Blaze
And
A
wyvern
isles so
ocean
should
whale, who
dead
thrice
swim
Around
"
all to hold
The
all filledwith
Marts, theatres and wharfs
in
Men
everywhere ! And this performed
"
When
those who
looked
on,
men,
turn,
hear the
pinedto
ho])es
And
moved
the
crowd,
I would
And
A
throw
1 would
human
down
speak;
the
no
pencilas
thoughtwhich
the
chisel.
ever
stirred
PARACELSUS
45
express-
'
the sultry
noon
470
away
sleeps
well
:
Beneath the tent-tree
by the wayside
this in languageas the need should be,
And
Now
pouredat once forth in a burningflow.
of words.
Now
piled
up in a grandarray
and consummate
all,
This done, to perfect
Of
him
Even
who
as
luminous
links
haze
to
star
star,
in strange melodies.
havingthus revealed all I could love, 480
be defined
To
Last,
save
full on
He
would
as
me,
men
I have
'
prayer,
my
approve
full on
was
gone
through
loveliness of life;
The
If
not
for men,
or
create
take
Eternal,infinitelove
to
me
for
Conceived
this
Thou
not
hast
king of
No
thyself,
mine.
Ah
Till thine
Nor
gaze
powers
like
me
for
thou
art
here
! 490
that end
upon
the
comjjassing
bliss
Were
At
not
own
me
But
Apr'ile.
didst
hast ne'er
Paracelsus.
Thou
me
'
If thou
Would
blind with
do
as
thou, a second
time
^"
*"S
nay, listen!
PARACELSUS
46
He
should
have
world, our
our
Knowing ourselves,
'tisclear if we
Our time so brief,
rpj^^
limited,the tools
so
means
task
so
great,
refuse
rude
so
To execute
500
our
])urpose, lifewill fleet,
the best
shall fade,and leave our task undone,
we
of his And
means
Be
Be
crippled
every
We
wait
full resources
Did
At
every
on
all be
Let
turn.
our
as
goodwill
it is.
contrived
earth is even
so
say the
and flower, a vesture
tree
gay, conceal
Some
That
littlepraise
'Twere
way
Answering to
Wrecked
on
our
a
mind
savage
But
isle : how
Had
now
rear
we
means
seem
510
thereon
And
this way
I green jarsof malachite,
those sea-shells
I 'd range them : where
'
Had
above,
5^"
set
Cressets should
The
Woven
of fern and
flag.'
blossoming
completer
grace
slight
fragment,some
rush and
Or
if,by fortune,some
Be
Of
glisten
boasts.
own
home
PARACELSUS
there,but
triflelittleheeded
Some
The
47
"
Could
Of the
To
let my
When
out
gggd
530
psalm
God,
thingsare
of the fiatof
word
followers know
such
what
noblyfor
adventure
-^ ^f
of reach !
one
one
angels,
I would
*"^
one
place's
Would
prizing
here
their sakes
were
nights
I would
At
the
dispart
stand
and
waves,
bark, and
my
more
once
hasten
back,
And
'
mounds
red
Of
from
earth
sides strange
whose
trees
out.
grow
sand,
blinding
I tremblingly
Till,by a mighty moon,
these magic herbs, berryand bud.
Gathered
In haste,not pausing
the weeds.
to reject
them at any price.
But happy plucking
Past
To
of milk-white
tracts
who
me,
have
minute
them
seen
bloom
in their
own
soil,
They
And
The
549
and wear
: plait
them, you !
lovely
that
from what they arc, the springs
are
scarce
guess,
fed them.
stars
The
Thus
that
snakes
for my
higherloves ; and
Would
win
Should
claim my
me
honour.
care
to
siptheir
thus
But
for common
not
even
dew
weakness
these alone
its wants
life,
'
PARACELSUS
48
not
And
ways,
would
hues
forth in beauteous
set
^trS^ure
For
As
thoughtsI
in the
ever
explored,
561
is attached
discoverer's memory
thus
To
clay,once
For
Should
into my
cast
come
this
Would
need
Nay,
'twould
one
than
spirit,
meaner
the first;
clothed
spirit,
selfsame spirit
:
guise,but stillthe
In humbler
As
springwind
unbinds
the mountain
snow
And
But,
How
Didst
thou, when
Ne'er range
Dazzled by
will
nervingthee
to
wide
extent, as some
shapesthat filledits lengthwith
not
to
hall.
light;.
obey, ',
571
this attempt.
thy mind's
Shapesclustered
That
hermitage.
rise
thy practised
eye and hand
but crowd
Can well transfer their loveliness,
580
?
By thee for ever, brightto thy despair
Didst thou ne'er gaze on each by turns, and ne'er
Resolve to single
out
one, though the rest
Should vanish,and to givethat one, entire
In beauty,
to the world ; forgetting,
so,
nor
Singly,
when
bafflesmortal power ?
number
Its peers, whose
And, this determined, wast thou ne'er seduced
By
memories
love.
passionate
PARACELSUS
To
49
glanceonce
Fasten
more
their
couldst but stagger back unto
welfare
or
laughthat man's applause
Thou
And
Could
tempt thee
passedand
wholly,
Had
When
to
some
Of
Didst
startled thee
murmur
ne'er strive
thou
even
yet
years
thee
possessed
Of
ever
? Or when
stilltheir love
without
from
forsake them
feet.
to
ray
those
break
spells
And
thou
prove
couldst
recover
fulfil
and
more
thick films.
mist-like influences,
of the rest that charmed
memories
so long
did
And
600
not
Thine
As
A
mountain
storm
"ay,
?ay,
Dear
fall;
but this,
lord !
lord,Aprile's
Claspme
Paracelsus.
are
That
!
Aprile
VVe
to
weak
dust.
not
reach
Nay, claspnot
/Iprile.
My king! and
envious
thus,
me
or
609
thus I
I faint!
thoughtscould
outrage thee ?
Lo, I forgetmy
ruin,and rejoice
God's
Let our
])raise
thy success, as thou!
Go bravely
throughthe world at last! What care
Through me or thee? I feel thy breath. Why,
In
tears
fall
"^^
PARACELSUS
50
Para-
Tears
celsus
awakens
6i8
j j^..^^^
love ;
wake
To
both !
us
and, merciful God, forgive
We
Wake
I
at
with
sought to
have
too
still.
jewelled
our
know
thou
as
to
love
"
penance
eyes are
I die.
now
But
to
have
'Tis
hid.
and
me,
Paracelsus. Die
not,
seen
singof
thee and
seen
I knew
as
I have
But
poet, think of
Even
And
us
ness
thick dark-
The
faintly.
thee
I hear
Aprile.
Thine
canst
die
to
speak,
thy face
me
so
soon
Aprile!We
! 630
must
never
part.
Are
we
Whom
not
halves of
this strange
!
Part ? never
one
Love
"
until both
unites
chance
more
once
saved.
are
world,
dissevered
hear
Aprile,
!
!
We
"
To
Aprile.
speakbut
once,
his side.
Hush!
640
hush!
Ha
With
by
! go you ever
phantoms,powers ? I have
But these
seem
Paracelsus.
real
as
girtabout
created such,
I.
Whom
can
you
see
PARACELSUS
Through
51
accursed
the
darkness
^prile.
1 know
Stay
them
White
Para-
who
lit
brows,
Paracelsus.
know
with
glory
up
Let
reward
should
but
him
well
them
live, and
I ?
as
all !
poets
celsus
know,
have
my
Apr'tle.Yes
see
God
now.
is the
perfect
poet,
Who
in
Had
his
person
but told
you
Paracelsus.
To
help
And
I
have
Michal
at
for
creations.
own
first !
my
Hush
! hush
sake,
because
these
wild
quiet
for
home
smile
on
! 'tis
Live
deep import.
shall
649
!
of
sin,
brain, oppressed by
my
their
this
me
Live
great
my
his
acts
us,
too
late.
friends.
and
Hear
you.
not
words
you
Lean
one
word
thus,
And
breathe
Of
all
your
my
sjx'ech, one
Apr'tle.No,
of
'Tis
you
no.
king,
Paracelsus.
Thy
I have
love
not
lose
little word,
Crown
me
Aprile
I
am
not
not
one.
!
one
he, the
me
I shall
breath.
you
seek.
am
attained, and
Let
6rx3
now
may
depart.
^"^'"^
PART
III
PARACELSUS
Scene.
Basil
"
o/"Paracelsus.
1526
Paracelsus, Festus
Paracelsus.
A
renewal
Heap logsand
laugh
'
out
^'""''
"'^liSi's
True, true!
'Tis very fit all,time and chance and change
Have
wrought since last we sat thus,face to face
all cares, far-looking
And
soul to soul
fears.
.
"
our
affections.
Oh, omit
Paracelsus.
Which
witnesses
Affection
The
It
spare
and
honours
your
and
own
aught
Michal's
own
Only forget
the glories
and what not,
tell profusely
out.
not
pleases
you to
Festus. Nay, even
waive
not
that !
your
honours, in
sense,
ro
Paracelsus,life's dispenser,
Fate's commissary,idol of the schools
than Aureole
And
still,
courts, shall be no more
The
wondrous
Still Aureole
and
my
friend
as
when
we
parted
PARACELSUS
Some
As
Which
To
53
RecoUec-
I restrained
of
promptings
advanced
secretly
my spirit
you, from the first,20
Has
ii?"vi
own
for you.
Paracelsus.
Still
won
wears
Like
the
Feslus. Just
so.
Paracelsus. And
was
Though saintly,
Alone.
Does
sad
not
sweet
ance.
counten-
sing
she stillsingalone,bird-like.
Not
Arc
Paracelsus.
Ah,
those children
quite
in my mind :
picture
distinct :
so
perfect,
she was
so
girl,
40
No change,no change ! Not but this added grace
May blend and harmonise with its comjjecrs,
And
Michal
I'ut 'tis a
And
most
may
become
her motherhood
PARACELSUS
54
Festus
So, Michal
recalls
have
you
"
nic
Festus.
it
For
In
our
very
when
strange how, even
domestic peace, a certain dim
was
secure
all ; it seemed
could sadden
shade
flitting
And
most
A
A
"
Not
words, perhapsavoided
consent
but, said or unsaid,felt
mute
59
pointto one so loved and so long lost.
fears
the
then the hopesrose and shut out
!
should I recount them now
you would laugh
to
By
be put in
"
To
And
"
How
I stillpredicted
your
at
return
last
With
wondrous
Tritheim's
All
troop
all,
them
did
ot
one
which
Attain
well
As
by
renown
Michal
any
of who
aware
was
beautiful as you
As
Paracelsus.
would
longere this,
woman,
some
sure
chance, I smiled,
were
loved
sage, had
to
Far-seeing,truly,
discern
so
much
and
In the fantastic projects
Of
raw
Oh,
warranted
our
no
the sunrise
Can
"
70
restlessboy !
Festus.
Well
day-dreams
themselves
In other brains than mine I have their possessors
PARACELSUS
in like circumstance
Existed
As
55
I, or
from
constant
ever
the
allurements and
Despisingyouth's
rejecting
?
As
and
they weak
first,
were
change
j^^ f^^^^
in him
Is there
"
hands
Glorious
Paracehus.
These
nay, touch
"
Recall
all the said
With
To
laythem
As
now.
by
Most
no
should
Who
doubt.
He
such
object
pale
be subtracted from
Something must
wide,
own
are
they not
glorious,
Why
Festus.
So
your
thus
when
times
recallings,
why
"
scrupulous,
still,
Still,
drawbacks.
Aureole,
9"
'Twere
changed,very changed!
nothing
You
are
look well
To
"
success
be
would
to
it : you
must
not
losing
be stolen
From
the
])a8ta doubt
You
Of
will best
me,
but of
Festus.
not
by talking,
gain your point,
yourself.
Have
not
said
builds
'oo
PARACELSUS
56
by
Amid
the birch-trees
celsus
Have
^^^^ namesake.
r'"h^^
f
hit
all
That
much
! 'tistoo
the
ask
to
proud
same
fate.
achievement
Sigh not
hope
imp)
(thewild
we
own
Small
the lake.
Para-
But you
very
are
kind
to
humour
me
quietlife;
tame
yourself
You, who of old could never
at heart despise
must
To tranquil
pleasures,
By showing interest in
my
Paracelsus. Festus,strange
by
secrets
let out
are
death
Who
blabs
And
so
death's familiar,
as you
am
helpeda man
Warped even
to
from
his go-cart
to
no
know.
since,
few weeks
die, some
end
one
"
smiles,reflected from
livingon princes'
trick
No mean
A mighty herd of favourites.
He left untried,and truly
well-nighwormed
of him :
out
of God's finger
All traces
Then died,grown old. And justan hour before.
The
120
God
Without
such
all that
And
Would
seems
Why
From
June
and he knew
harebells grew
telling,
kingscould ever giveor
to
be
me
much
worthier
well.
in June ;
take
as those blooms
precious
allowingI am passing
sage.
not
Just so,
It
it was
told him
to
him.
argument
bear beauty's
prize
pansies,!
gygg that laugh,
(yourMichal's
violets,
eyes that dream
"
choice)
"
Citrinula
aris.
"
DoRN.
herba
(flammula)
Paracelso
multum
famili-
PARACELSUS
Than
57
wonder
to
in
at
me
130
He
speaks
be very sure
And
in my fortunes.
restlessness,
I say this from no prurient
Or
lectures
itching turn.
self-complacency,
from all points,
Vary and view its pleasure
other men
And, in this instance,willing
demonstrate
to itself
May be at pains,
The realness of the very joy it tastes.
of friends
like the news
What
should delight
me
No
to
memories
Whose
mountain-baths
As
solace
were
to
me
wild fowls in
to
oft,
their iiight?
no
God
I need
knows
hearts
repressing
tamingnor
such!
speak?
Festus. Speak ?
"
me
when
but
When
Paracelsus.
this
morning
at
my
class ?
There
you
To
enough.
saw
not.
Surelyyou
know
"
lecture
to
as
till
engagedto
am
that 'tispart of my
chair here ?
The
crowd
noise and
was
thick-skulled
many
proudfate
youths
As
crack beneath
To
such
honour
Festus.
I
mingledwith
Small
care
was
throng : shall
the
mine
to
On
gatheringfrom
full corroboration
What
can
the
listen?
"
murmurs
of my
I learn about
150
was
too
tlicre ;
avow
intent
of the crowd
hopes !
your powers
? but
they
PARACELSUS
58
Know,
and
perplexes Your
Those
th^h"^
^"'^
irony
for
various
^ S*'* ^
^'"^
Paracelsus.
least in
At
the
As
an
you
Stop,o'
God's
as
sway
^ ^^'^^^attend
^"""^
by no means
yet
remedy ! Shall I
Past
"
whom
natures
name
the
one
thing's
labour
read this morning's
substance
Nought
so
worth
gaining
Thus
apt scholar !
"
"
less.
However, I foregothat luxury
Since it alarms the friend who bringsit back.
echo strangely
like my own
must
True, laughter
better far ;
smile were
To thinking
men
; a
So, make me smile ! If the exultinglooks
'tisso long
be smiling,
but now
You wore
Since I have smiled !
Alas, such smiles are
born
Alone
180
Of ancient time,whose
Saw in the stars mere
And
in the earth
or
herdsmen's
eyes, calm
souls
their
flocks.
garnishryof heaven.
as
change!
change, Festus : I say, never
Festus. My God, if he be wretched after all!
Never
PARACELSUS
"
Festus,you
parted,
last we
Paracelsus. When
declared,
Or Michal,yes,
59
Festus
cannot
her soft
Q^iugnd
whisperedwords
lips
she believed
preserved.She told me
I should succeed (meaning,
that in the search
190
I then engaged in, I should meet
success)
And
yet be wretched : now, she auguredfalse.
but
Thank
Festus.
heaven !
spoke
you
could I venture
:
strangely
lest your friend,
To think bare apprehension
Dazzled
might find
course,
by your resplendent
I have
Henceforth
Such
less sweetness
mood
earnest
friend.
That
Your
lot
not
was
inwardlyrepining
!
own
my
For
ever!
will
They
In them
this for
And
Paracelsus.
gullwho
not
look
but
surelyhe
! 200
gulled
'tisnothingnew
they will
may,
tliink ;
nor
is
ever
be
of them
not
"
"
my
friend.
Would
look
Untroubled
A
weaker
at
by
me,
once
the false
vision
To
And
A
I had
or
remain
would
amid
Though singular
I feared you,
close,with piercing
eye
glarethat confounds
serene.
throng.
ga])ing
sure, longere
come,
I'.insiedeln. Well,
error
lias
no
end,
Past all
I have
Shall
'Tis
!
dispute
vowed
longago
owe
to
their
own
vain
to
fret
at
it.
worshipjK-rs
deep sagacity
my
this.
210
PARACELSUS
6o
Paracelsus
All
further
information,
good
or
bad.
risk indeed
Small
reputation
runs,
glancenow searchingme
Be fixed much
to spell
longer; for it seems
Dimly the characters a simplerman
Might read distinct enough. Old Eastern books
Say,the fallen princeof morningsome short space
Remained
unchangedin semblance;nay, his brow
hued with triumph: every spirit
then
Was
his heart on flame the while :
a tale !
Praising,
my
perchancethe
explains Unless
220
"
Fes
which
you,
foul deed
Some
t us.
I pray ?
sullies then a
discover
Well, Festus,what
life
else
Were
raised supreme ?
Paracelsus.
Good
Why
strive
to
make
men
well,most well ;
selves
hear, feel,fret them-
I do
229
With
what
I should
The
faint surmise
One,
Not
Of
One
The
not
at
not
least,
that
the
one
utter
yet walked
fool of
yet
His
The
And
anxious
for another's
choose
sake.
That,
And
so
earth.
show,
Was
ere
240
for him
essayed,prejudged
gentlespirit
perilous
path,foresaw its destiny.
warned
the weak
one
in such
Such
accents
That
When
the
"
tender words,
his whole
"
increased
:
despair
6i
PARACELSUS
He
f^^f^^
y^^^ failed
"
Relation,if it make
more
Therefore, once
out
me
wise ?
more
deceived,and thus
were
I have
not
and yet
successful,
been
'tissaid
Most
miserable
Give
That
common
Festus.
do
surely
Paracelsus. You
wise
To
As
last ;
at
to
me
"
am
nor
you
concede
sense
You
you deceived
were
not
know,
mean
or
to
if you
"
banter
have
me
been
261
enough
of such matters
knew,
cleanse your memory
it clear.
far as words of mine could make
"
That
])rosperous]y.
proceeded
Sorrowingthen onlywhen mischance retarded
Alone
as
it
Its progress.
That
was
in
those
Wiirzburg
days!
I thoroughly
hate, 270
a theme
prolong
this planwith all my strength
I have pursued
;
And
having failed therein most signally.
ruin utter and drear
Cannot object
to
would have been the prize
As all-excelling
Not
Had
to
fortune favoured
me.
scarce
right
glad
have
late so
good spirit
1 know,
In my supposed
prosjierity,
I luckyin a glutof friends,
And, were
To
vex
your
frank
PARACELSUS
62
and
pro-
Would
well agree
let your
to
^^
"""^
condition
""
to
live,
error
280
success.
refuse
exDOsm-e
transient solace of
The
luxury,my
My solitary
AccordinglyI venture
The
wearisome
Secure
rare
put off
to
by.
godsend,
friend
one
of falsehood
vest
he is
when
so
layme
galling
me,
bare,
but he is my friend !
his mercy
Not that he needs retain his aspect grave ;
'tis like.
That answers
not
my purpose ; for
Some
morning Basil beingdrained 290
Prone
at
"
sunny
its wise
Of
"
population,
every corner
crammed
with learned clerks.
Of the amphitheatre
Here
lookingworlds of wit,
Qicolampadius,
Here Castellanus,as profound
as
he,
Munsterus
here, Frobenius there, all squeezed
staring, that the zany of the show,
shall put off before them
Even Paracelsus,
And
"
with
trappings
Expedientin such
His
venture
In
The
Due
Were
"
but seldom
the
Is it not
judged
grim smile
therefore best
300
Festus.
The
grace
cases
will go round!
That
To
These
are
foul vapours,
Aureole
nought beside !
weariness.
effect of watching,
study,
there a sparkof truth in the confusion
bred
wanderings,
study.
of faintness and
much
310
PARACELSUS
'Tis
not
trouble
to
Festus
still
me,
I have
Paracelsus.
! ^^^
'tis ungracious
the manner,
;
probably
it told in broken
sobs,one day,
may have
For
You
And
To
Do
trust
friend.
Michal's
To
63
still?
you wonder
Festus.
one
Shall
rise from
all men
Of
what
it with
least
eye
measure
can
it must
perfects
any work.
labour
whose
That
Of
No
so
that he
worn
the
extent
accomplished.He
he has
320
alone
Who,
Is
one
of them,
down
First,they set
next,
Was
counted
'Tis
with
so
all progress
as
all !
dream
quickdiscomfiture
few
some
accomplishes
he whose
when
And
last !
at
on,
"
Ik-neath his
Festus.
tread,so
sure
Few
death
!
tires
re-
before
the noblest of mankind.
when
presence
in soul.
Broken in body or subdued
raise
their vigour,
May through your skill renew
Your
"
stateiiness?
jiristine
dreams
in rackingpainmay purchase
When
men
them
Of what dcliglits
most, swooning at once
Into a sea of bliss or rajitalong
340
The
shattered frame
to
^^^^^
^
PARACELSUS
64
Paracelsus
insists
As
in
When
flying
sphereof
turbulent
?
light
ordained
Luther's
Our
burningtongue
When
.
Paracelsus. When
you get
This notable
news
those
The
wonders
whose
the
voice
common
daringnot dispute
envy,
it decries,attributes them
magic and
To
from
Even
Festus.
From
and
such
folly.
Why
Folly?
Paracelsus.
magic,pray ? You
ne'er
God
In holding,
Us or our doings: once
The devil's tempting
find
To
comfort
troubles him
not
doubtless
about
351
judgedworth
I offend : forgive
me,
Your prophecyon the whole
And
rest
content.
Was
fair enough as prophesyings
go ;
but quite
At fault a littlein detail,
Precise enough in the main ; and hereupon
I pay due homage : you guessed
long ago
(The prophet! ) I should fail and I have failed.
to tell me,
Festus. You mean
then, the hopes
were
we
...
"
fed
which
360
youth have
Your
Some
not
Or
As
Paracelsus.
You
fame.
very decent prophet's
Little matter
but shun details here.
have
So you
Whether
those
hopeswere
mad,
"
the aims
sought.
Safe and
secure
they
PARACELSUS
Or
whether
By
what
And
methinks
now
better
am
wits
weak
my
He
overcome
are
would
spirit
scorn
LI
stumbled
theme
now
Beside
^?"^j'^"""
the theme
on.
371
I say confusedly
what comes
uppermost ;
But there are times when patience
proves at
As
wishes
I fail.
tool to have
sad
65
this
fault,
morning's
strange encounter
you
I guessed
once
again! you, whom
me
Alive,since
"
hitherto
(withLuther's leave)
I among
No
friend have
To
helpedme
why not he,
in enterprise,
380
My strange competitor
end by another path,
Bound for the same
you would
I knew
have
"
Your
Ah, theymiss
goes it with Aprile?
lone sad sunny idleness of heaven,
martyrs for the world's sake
Our
time.
doubtful close ?
disastrous journey's
our
How
the
shuts
heaven
fast :
poet is
poor mad
The
Since you
are
howlingby this
my
time !
or
theie,
389
quiterepress the varied feelings
This meetingwakens ; theyhave had their vent.
Do the rear-mice still
them.
And now
forget
Hang like a fretwork on the gate (or what
the road
In my time was
a gate)
fronting
I could
From
not
Linsiedcin
to
Lachen
Trifle
I'estus.
Answer
Just now,
me,
for my
when
sake alone !
some
supposed
Yourself,might blot
the else
so
You
not
smiled
deed, unworthy
brightresult;
PARACELSUS
66
but
Festus
still
You
a defeat,why then
experienced
withdraw
you would cheerfully
have
is I
say
un^fMom
not
contest
fashioned
But
surelyyou
mortal
"
hearts
400
not
arc
so
"
nc'ertlielesswithdraw.
would
love,
gain nor even
No end distinct from knowledge, I repeat
Your very words : once
satisfiedthat knowledge
Is a mere
as
much.
dream, you would announce
You
soughtnot fame
nor
"
Yourself
You
are
defeated
"
Paracelsus. As
how
is the
event
and
signify
defeat !
410
But
of my littlelabours here,
of the break-down
of my genera!aims
For
you,
spoke not
To
By
As
Is
At
And
Of
For
look
these sage
beardless boys,and
a
on
fit consummation
Basil !
think
lecturings,
approved
bearded
see
dotards
worse.
as
to
so
much
in
it.
drained
reasonably
life'sdelights
to render
me
scope,
professorship
Since you
my life was
duties arduous
and
extent
of such aims,
worthy notice.
Be it far from
To
of their
aware
such
deny
me
match
420
post demands,
"
my
power
Of
Of
honours
the earth
For
me,
429
which
despair
seized
67
PARACELSUS
vermin
The
I
to
came
Whose
There
Had
Here
^^y^^^
infalliblenostrum
most
was
at
fault ;
^^
whose
horoscope perience
quakedthe astrologer,
promisedhim interminable years ;
monk
fumbled
at
relic
mouth
sudary
knave
Of the Virgin; while another piebald
brotherhood (he loved them ever)
Of the same
'neath his nose
Was actively
440
preparing
Such a sufFumigation
fired.
as, once
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stunk the patient
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some
undoubted
"
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devil in my sword.
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raise a cross-grained
laid : and ere an hour the prince
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he was.
since prince
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for my life,
and I was
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and most
by the costly
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to lite:
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of the seer
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all along
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his sickness : last of all were
joined
tillGod's
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of many
such
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directions
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me
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some
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folk
all loyal
to
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prince's
frustrate heaven
and
by help
in his sword.
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certain devils
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further favours.
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pass.
on
me
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such,
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titles
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patents, licences,
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show, there 's no
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merelysought
great wonder
after all
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and
stay,
crowd
to
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they can
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virtue
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placeof
I think ;
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have read together.
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time
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was,
clothe the
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truth is
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that
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justas
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far from
me
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as
life away
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;
sorrow
and
repairing,
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see
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: doubts
many
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had
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;
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me
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;
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to be gained,
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faint anticipations
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to
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teacher,I shall be
content
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favour
at
their hands
your view of
the crowd
you
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warrant.
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noughtelse ;
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bitterly
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his own
doctrine,when the teacher
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from my pains,
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to draw
profit
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picture
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at
few
their fellows. Once
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implanted,
the germ
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make
amends
some
have
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grant it so !
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and
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impatient
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Though for an instant ; therefore,
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uncouth
habits,my
them
and resolved
present fruit~to
tcacii mankind
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a
ge
cares
requiring
art
an
itself:
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thing
one
was
display
firstin my thoughts,
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soon
renown
I had
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po])ular
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to
"
things.
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needs
leave
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Why
waitingfuller dispensation
no
labour of
Paracelsus.
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Docilityand
wherefore
repugnance,
not, 'tisyet to learn
what
inclination free
I shall do
and
of obedience
If when
to
be performed.
really
choose
once
more,
modify
aught but slightly
task I
of the hated
nature
plainwords,
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once
once
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confessing
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of
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and
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flatterme
my dull round ?
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a use, a meaning,
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this
how
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can
change
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soul ?
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when
save
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!
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warped
should I do,
drudgery,but return
blind and sore.
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To my old life and die as 1 began ?
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for their loveliness;
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lovelyobjects
lose her firstimprint
;
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liven tho' released from
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one
God
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translate
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further my
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now
me,
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76
Festus
cool,the
grass-banks
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cannot
warm
no
more.
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prehend
sunbeams
nightarrive,
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and ride
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you
enter
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to
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toil,you listen ; I
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left,
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perhaps
explain,
there
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communion
our
discourse ?
from to-day's
you learnt nothing
the sick man's
know
would thoroughly
we
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state
fluttering
pulse,
press soft
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And
thence divine the rest.
tear
or
up
My heart,hideous and beating,
deem
will
My vitalsfor your gaze, ere you
are
you,
Enough made known ? You ! who
feel awhile the
We
forsooth ?
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By
And
is the
the arch
claimed
crowning operation
demonstrator
Secure
:
good places
"
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Let
the
hall,
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worth
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the
while.
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judgedfrom
words.
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much
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you are puzzled
and half mad :
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here, half stupid
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to search
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should you
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then, you think
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to
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yet
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I need
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have
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something, I
"
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cannot
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I do
than
portions
worse
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know
not
crawl.
not
this
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say well !
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never
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man
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stimulants of
mean
vanityshould
a
sunk
become
!
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food
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the wish
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teach
breath
it
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like life-
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I had
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no
never
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wear
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memories
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your
spurnedby
chains
resolute
you;
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nought
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save
its
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to
him,
frighten
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fawn
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miration
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friend!
it be that all love renders wise
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its
love
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I say, such
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never
minutest
every the
to
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dreams
and searching)
vigilant
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broods
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such:
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but rather
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hate
which
object,and
its
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well it is adored.
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all fails,
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calumnies
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despite,
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presence
blinds not
blind.
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more
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their hearts
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men
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weakness
Like
I bid you
have
to
common
of
good
decay in
of
suns.
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where
should
crowd
expectation
to follow
Eventually
!
Oplinif
priest
my merit
of individual minds
you
more,
you
quietmountain-cloistered
Paracelsus!
Instructing
yet 'tisso.
That
me
cheer !
Pdidcelsus.
Think
like
men
reveal endears
you
as
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but
mightiestspiritsonly
hate, who
to
scorn
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merit
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extends
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feet
perhaps,
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the
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make
to
wider
for
range
For, whatsoe'er
And
I
inroad and
such
thought:
legitimate
success,
blind
they do this ;
true
knowledge
nay,
notions of
my
procure
be,
may
rank
my undoubted
classed with others : I precedemy
not
am
When
And
to
age
whoso
These
own
But, alas !
May have a prosperous outset.
My followers they are noisyas you heard
the best of them
But, for intelligence,
I 8u])ply
wield the weapons
So clumsily
"
And
they extol,that
Whether
Would
their
do
not
Thus
before
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my
Festus.
arms
my
not
fall
batterings
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more
stones
pebble-
and
will
if error
"
Sooner
clubs
vilely
swayed
would
withhold
New
arms
To
To
Can
900
until you
Paracelsus.
I have
beginto doubt
rude
own
890
Content
you,
'tis my
wish
recourse
make
those
arms
of any
use
to
men.
PARACELSUS
Of
course
Graced
explains
Flash
on
Make
our
83
all in armour,
hearts dance to
thou
us,
proper
Festus.
sightto
Pity
crows
choose
you
Achilles !
teach
resounding
step !
thy
the
scare
w^at
away
then
not
910
some
method
other
Of
deathless
Meanwhile
monument
wait
after-time
to
and enjoy
confidently
The
ultimate effect :
You
shall be all-revealed.
sooner
Pardcelsits.
In
form
new
Two
of
sorts
Hints
The
no
other consists of
While
bent
Prime
which
princijjles
These
last I offer
My
bid
nobler
to
question
I possess
one
"
vast,
"
may
my
conduct
to
much
must
to
followers here.
Revert
I
Thus:
920
shadowy,
aim I once
:
])ursued
secrets, caught
many
])rize,perhapsa few
of the unbounded
Now,
old dull
more.
knowledge;
on
later
or
The
;
me
the wild
go
find
courses
them
:
justabjured
scattered
through
930
the
world.
he
PARACELSUS
84
and
defends
,
h'f
lecturing
in print,
century hence embalmed
intend to learn at all,
For if mankind
1 hey must
beginby givingfaith to them
Or
half
And
them
actingon
and I do
not
see
940
indifferent well :
that my lectures serve
doubt these dogmas fall not to the earth.
But
No
all their
For
noveltyand ruggedsetting.
the day
class will not forget
know
the gods of Israel,
I think
my
I let them
Aetius,Oribasius,Galen, Rhasis,
Avicenna, Averrcies,
Serapion,
Were
blocks !
And
Festus,
that reminds
1 heard
me,
something
About
waywardness: you burned
your
books.
instead of answering
It seems,
those sages.
Paracelsus. And
With
Some
OEcolampadius.
purpose
this short stay
Of
As
Basil
at
950
said that ?
who
Festus.
their
met
know,
you
to
was
yesternight
the
learn
Was
my
old friend.
Paracelsus.
Ah,
Zurich
Festus. From
Of
I
:
forgot
you
"
(youknow,
of late
960
"
Paracelsus. I remember.
teach
you
why
answer
Here
"
ear
and returning
sought
Carolostadius)
Basil and
Will
at Wittenberg
Luther, now
make
no
doubt, the differences
With
went
PARACELSUS
The
books
85
mention.
you
Pray, does
Luther
and
bold
dream
His
arguments convince
The
crowds
that
by
their
force
own
his doctrine ?
own
No,
^'l*^
'
indeed !
Luther
His
Affected
Of
under
chance
time
or
not
970
did
"
than
more
the array
followed.
Boldlydeny !
There
is much
hair-stiffening
breath-stopping,
mute
Awhile; then, amazed glances,
awaiting
which
argument
The
thunderbolt which
does
not
come
and next,
those
:
wonder
Reproachful
and
Who
able now
stirred,
are
for themselves,
perhaps
set the whole
at work,
else had
never
To
find the
To
him
outstrip
As
"
you
Festus.
rest
out
who
:
inquiry
will my
never
And
saw
'Tis
Paracelsus. True
the
wondrous
soul !
so-heavychain
which
galledmankind
Ls shattered,
and the noblest of us all
Must bow to the deliverer
nay, the worker
"
Of
our
Had
We
own
burst
should
their load
This
he has done
and
Whatever
What
And
For
be my chance
benefits mankind
men
of
seem
or
my
mischance.
gladme
made, though not as
somethingbetter
may
must
too
990
believed,
produce.
"
PARACELSUS
86
Witness
of peasants your
these gangs
speaks of Pio,-,^ Suabia have
Festus
And
whom
Miinzer
possessed,whom
duke,
the
the
lights
new
the
landgraveand
elector
Will
calm
in blood !
world
Well, well
Fes/us. Hark
Paracelsus.
'Tis the
Within
Morn
the
trees
be
must
melancholywind
the embers
'tisnot
too
are
near.
stars,
Is blank and
astir
grey
Festus.
The
my
see,
flying
looo
motionless
peaceful
sleep
how
Like an asp.
!
tree-tops altogether
from bough to bough.
The wind slips
whispering
Paracelsus, Ay ; you would gaze on a wind-
The
shaken
By
the
tree
hour, nor
time
count
Festus.
Those
lost.
happy times
will
again.
Gone, gone.
the moaning
not
come
Paracelsus.
times
pleasant
Those
Does
wind
Seem
to
bewail that
bartered
And
have
we
sleepfor
them
gainedsuch gains
?
It is
Festus.
That
All
is yet another
and mischance.
there
error
To
why
some
this
fme
to
Another
Paracelsus.
And
world
life to
come
our
trust
mend
world
loio
world, to
be
fair soever.
be fed
Man
must
PARACELSUS
87
With
food,forsooth
angels'
Of
diviner
Through
In
his
look
few
some
Para-
traces
celsus
out
I^^ch
him
warrant
baseness,
corporeal
contempt of all provision
supreme
his inferior
For
which
nature
and
tastes
comfort
marks
straggling
some
"
Which
As
The
But
A
barren
rock, their
it
were
so
were
"
bed, one
all mind
man
station littleenviable.
Down
to
the lowest
which
Into immeasurable
shade.
Love, hope,fear,faith
"
its signand
are
these I have
And
he
"
gains
God
From
ministrant.
spirit
exists
Intelligence
These
diamond.
casts
No,
"
mind
no
these make
note
lost !
our
and
humanity;
character.
for
me
ever,
Like
1030
dead
See, morn
at
length. The
Diluted,grey
The
shrubs
Some
unkindness
heavydarkness
clear without
and
bestirand
rouse
more
the
stars
themselves
down
seems
;
as
if
all night,
let go
His
hold
from
no
I'csliis.
and
more
to
the
favour,
88
They
part
And
PARACELSUS
Unwilling
My
Shall
friend
You
will
if
is
light
darkness
and
not
"
But
that
Should
You
For
Will
my
trust
trusted)
you
you
are
not
faith
is
and
thus,
call
me
desire
(as
and
this
to
your
1050
again,
alone
"
support
obscured
mood
fit
see
you
love
our
this
arise
strive
and
God's
in
his
on
if
now,
remember
If
more
once
while
the
sorely.
again,
trust
well,
so
moved
deeply
you,
so
changed
away,
all
hope
fared
have
has
pass
Where
To
to
leave
done.
have
is
dim
no
that
I
must
man
think
through
you:
reward.
side, dear
Aureole
PART
IV
PARACELSUS
Colmar
Scene
ASPIRES
in yf/satia
Paracelsus,
Inn.
an
"
Festus
Is
and
Aghast
.lust
though
So
true
And
BasF^
live, as
we
I"iechtenfels
value
live ;
his
on
Piitter
and
jiaralysed.
shall
one
may
had
say,
set
never
carcass.
sorry
had
holds
frowned
not
dumb.
us
For
To
A
delicate
the
blush,
shut
John
'
yet
learned
We
Basil
Oppose
celsus
Dear
asira
Torinus
poor
soul that Basil
honest
every
as
ad
Viscnburg
scandalised, and
And
his Para-
Oporinus,
[to Johannes
Secrelary\ Sir itur
Paracelsus
Von
1528
"
the
as
fainter
no
of
heart
tinge
is born
Pledge
bud.
10
good
me,
hot
plague
plague !
ravage
'
l'"ven
Piitter
it, and
so
Do
you
too
share
Their
panic, the
reptiles?
through these,
Desist
At
for
these
They
but
Ha,
matters
manage
others
may
faint
ha;
find
80
so
means
PARACELSUS
90
braggartof
He greets To
bringthe stoutest
Festus
Once
to crouch
more
in silence
the tribe
to
means
"
breed
20
"
brow
surely,
inefFaceably,
deeply,
shall not puckerit
That henceforth flattery
So
Out
To
of the furrow
the
show
next
Basil with
This
Whom
; there
its magnates,
curse
"
fillmy
And
cup,
"
despatch,
now
Despatch,my
To
Are
yet
This
be
to
night;
see
completed,
we
'11 weather
you
the
30
hasten
at
storm
least :
to-morrow
Nuremberg !
For
Now
leave
us
this grave
clerk
Has
divers
weightymatters
for my
ear
[OpoRiNUs^ofjout.
And
Festus,
my gallant
spare my lungs. At last,
that dogs my heels
I am
rid of this arch-knave
As a gaunt crow
a gasping
sheep; at last
May givea loose to my delight.How kind.
firstbest onlyfriend !
How
40
very kind, my
!
like
Embrace
me
fidelity.
Why, this looks
Not a hair silvered yet ? Right! you shall live
Till I am worth your love ; you shall be proud.
I
And
I
sent
Upon
At
"
to
my
you because
conscience
Basil,wliich
the
you
not
wonder
weighed
(you recall the night
gods confound ! ) because
our
"
! Did
compact
"
PARACELSUS
Once
aspire. I call
You thoughtmy
more
You
91
come.
to
you
message
strange ?
hope,indeed,yoar messenger
Has mingledhis own
fancies with the words
to be yours.
Purporting
I
tells him
So strange
Festus.
That
side
my
must
He
Paracelsus.
said
no
Basil
^"'^
"^^^^
Jf^^
50
more,
folk I leave
than the precious
probable,
Said fiftyfold
more
roughly. Well-a-day,
'Tis true ! poor Paracelsus is exposed
At last ; a most
egregious
quack he proves :
those he overreached
And
must
spittheir hate
beneath contempt.
On one
who, utterly
wits. You heard
Could yet deceive their topping
Bare truth ; and at my biddingyou come
here 60
To sjieed
as
me
on
once
my enterprise,
Your lavish wishes spedme, my own
friend !
'Tis
What
Festus.
purpose. Aureole ?
Oh, for purpose,
is your
Paracelsus.
There
is
Like
mine
The
case
To
lack of
no
at
of
men
in a case
precedents
least,if not precisely
mine,
off by those they sought
cast
benefit.
Festus.
cast
They really
you
off?
The
matter
To
was
referred to,
interfere,
nor
Contempt of him
His wrath
That
Basil
you
;
hide
to
was
Paracelsus. The
no
your
cause
71
full
nor
thereat,which
soon
saw
made
raised
no
affair of
shallowest fable,
so
fierce a liamc
placefor
you.
I ,i"'(litenfels
? the
PARACELSUS
92
the
reason
last and
The
j j^new
How
For
Of
silliestoutrage
it from
it,I foretold
pretence !
mere
"
first,
the
soon
"
"
word
And
every
The
prophets!
playoff the
To
Saul is among
true.
comes
Just
longas
so
antics of my
mere
pleased
was
art,
to no
end,
gambolsleading
ne'er keepdown
but one
I got huge praise:
can
There
Our foolish nature's weakness.
they
Fantastic
flocked,
Poor devils,
swearingand perspiring,
jostling,
!
Till the walls rang again; and all for me
I had a kindness for them, which
was
right; 90
I
But then
A
Of
trust
and
in them
sympathy for
To
teach
tillI tacked
stoppednot
them,
respect
"
them
not
must
that
sort
needs
them,
amaze
to
'
to
begin
impart
the search
should instigate
which
spirit
Of truth,'
justwhat you bade me ! I spoke out.
in disgust,
Forthwith
a mightysquadron,
The
Redoublingmy
The
rest.
endeavours
When
long
Only to ascertain
This
To
tenet
hear
lo !
one
to
man
sack,'I said.
secure
had
tarried
so
ICX5
if I
supported
of his,or
And
havingheard,now
PARACELSUS
beaconed
And
good old
Though not
worthy
The
would commend
again and the
properly,
o'er, l"^^'^^
safely
ways our sires jogged
the other
their squeamish
sons
;
gj^g^
no
divers
Discovered
93
of St. John,
verses
The
Was
From
The
new
And
scarce
professor
or
arrival had
my
But
the
it seems,
now,
year before
;
120
"
which
Whom
hand, installed
merit
patient
awhile by flashy
tricks,but sure
later to emerge in splendour
luckless wight
the examplewas
some
Obscured
fillmy
To
quietleer
glance
reproachful
flourish about
vast
Sooner
end
and a sour
grave folk,
those in chief who, cap in
From
Of
QuuImultaPThe
not.
chair and
so
discomfited.
recalled
voice
general
efl^acethe stain
I sought no better,
longincurred.
quietdismissal from my ))Ost,
Basil had
Only
And
And
But fast as
Of
rid
to
))roposed
of
pleasure
The
back, I could
obnoxious
my
the tribe
partingkick.
You
they merit
as
If I
This
To
be
smile,
turned
as
graceful
Festus,were
defiled,
your eyes
sniilf :
Paracelsus.
'Tis with
spare them
not
Festus.
Despisethem
131
recompense,
your
the eyes
to
nature
ache
fit
PARACELSUS
94
Festus
eatingpoison-blains,
gangrene-blotches,
140
barkyscurf of leprosy
hideous
finds" a man, and leaves" a
Which
thing
but be mended
That cannot
by hell fire,
heart
I would laybare to you the human
cursed longago, and devils make
God
Which
At
"
since
Their
pet
and their
nest
discovered
Oh,
sages have
For
various ends
One
stumbled,in
Of
If that be
Our
Yet
Of
in
nature
in
have
men
can
spirits
I had
not
It seems,
us
the
at
to
"
born
are
we
his
formed
to
hate ?
To
hate ?
150
objectwhich evokes
hate
!
be sure 'tis
fulleststrength,
true
our
powers
home.
never-tiring
doubted
nourish
bravest
monopolyof fools.
Basil.
But your
Festus.
!
plans,
your plans
I have
yet
to
ponderousshame.
crushed snail,
undergo
up like a
In silence and desist from further toil,
To
shrink
And
Of
so
one
subside into
their
censure
160
monument
blasted?
or
to
bow
to lower
as
submissively,
Cheerfully
Basil dictates.
as
even
My old pretensions
me
To drop into the rank her wits assign
and make
that use
And
live as they prescribe,
Of my poor knowledge which their rules allow.
and then, and careful
Proud to be patted
now
the true
To practise
posture for receiving
benefit from their hoofs' appliance
The amplest
PARACELSUS
95
When
tutor
to
me
Paxa-
170
celsus
like a flame
Then, one may feel resentment
Within, and deck false systems in truth's garb,
And
tangleand entwine mankind with error,
old aims
And givethem darkness for adower and falsehood
For a possession,
ages : or one
may mope
Into a shade throughthinking,
else drowse
or
.
Into
sleepand
dreamless
But I,
now
"
die off.
so
but I
"
Am
out
once
embracing
merelysetting
more,
My earliest aims again! What thinks he now
aims?
Festus. Your
where
The
the aims?
181
.
Paracelsus.
aims
"
made
A
and
is found
earlytrust
The
Know?
to
"
fast ; I say.
You know
they
Nay, not
the old
not
so
means.
me
laughing-stock
; I
The
when
Not
again!
but they
and
the
had
was
how
their
fool
you know
hardlythose means
;
beauty;
should
who
know
Their
if not
beauty,
passing
They
were,
If that may
I ?
let them
so
vanish,yet in beauty
Stay: thus they pass in song!
[^Ifc
SIII^S.
be.
sandal-buds
Heap cassia,
Of
labdanum, and
Smeared
From
Down
From
her hair
an
such
sea-side mountain
treasure
the
vast
stripes
and
half their
Indian
balsam
190
wipes
falls
iK-destals,
tired winds
tree-tops where
Spentwith
To
and
aloe-balls.
dull narcl
with
out
dreams
Still,
fain,
howling main,
arc
island-gain.
l-
PARACELSUS
96
Festus
And
protests
faint
strew
from
sweetness
fine worm-eaten
Egyptian's
Which
Or
breaks
to
dust when
old
some
shroud
unrolled ;
once
200
shredded
like a cloud
perfume,
From
closet longto quiet
vowed,
mothed
and droppingarras
With
hung.
Moulderingher
As
when
lute and
books
among.
longdead, was
queen,
And
young.
pileshall die
with fair perished
things,
My lovelyfancies,
fair and forgotten
Themselves
; yes, forgotten,
them ?
Or why abjure
So, I made this rhyme
That fitting
might be preserved
dignity
;
I ; though the list of
little proud was
No
drugs
Mine,
word
every
on
such
210
Smacks
Halts
But,Aureole,
Festus.
Talk
Did
To
For
Than
not
thus
Than
This
here
am
"
I have travelled
all!
far,indeed.
Be yourself
learn your wishes.
again!
I recognise
in this mood
you less
you know
in the horrible
I witnessed
But
wildlyand madly.
last.
despondency
You
may
this,joy;
account
rather let me
flushed cheek
Paracelsus.
220
and
intensely-sparkling
eye.
I
was
light-hearted
man,
Why,
in my prime;
what would
I am
now;
light-hearted
Aprilewas a poet, I make songs
you have?
"
I
'Tis the very augury of success
Why should I not be joyousnow
want
as
!
then ?
PARACELSUS
Festus.
for
Joyous! and
joy?
97
how?
and
what
remains
Paracelsus
^.^^^
(whichI am sick 7^^'^
Of naming)are impracticable.
and know
Paracelsus.
Ay,
230 at once
Pursued as I pursuedthem
the arch-fool !
Listen : my planwill please
you not, 'tislike,
You
have
"
But
"
I will
; all I despised
accept all helps
So rashly
at the outset, equally
With earlyimpulses,
late years have quenched:
I have
All
tried each
helps!
I seek
Not
and
without
Supposemy
more,
shall exclude
sort
one
know
to
one
Once
no
to
enjoyat
the other
labour should
as
for both !
:
now
singly
way
the
rest.
once,
240
before.
as
God's
seem
firstI dreamed,
cause
own
it shall not
"
baulk
me
Of
the
That
And
Can
earthliest sensualest
meanest
delight
joy is gain,
for every
gainis gain,however small.
may
be snatched
die then,nor
be taunted
My
soul
gained?
follow
Nor, on the other hand, shoultl pleasure
As though I had not spurnedher hitherto.
Shall she o'ercloud
munion
spirit's
my
rapt com'
"
what
'
was
250
With
the tumultuous
Glorious
Festus.
with
visions of
full success.
And
wherefore
not?
Why
prefer
Results obtained
To
Success !
Paracelsus.
not
past,the teemingfuture,
those derived
in my
best
alone from
state
seasons
of
being.
dark
PARACELSUS
98
and
so
As
the
fightthe
a
e ou
my
thoughtstheybred
youth
Unwasted, seemed
It is the
I
am
of darkness
nature
wanderer
success
best,
was
too
surest
not
obscure.
to
well
I remember
When
One
conceive
My
But
I had
No
darkness
seen
the
and
city,
could
obscure
glance
such
one
shall the
nor
present
"
shame
few dull hours, a passing
or
two,
Destroythe vivid memories of the past.
I will fight
the battle out ; a littlespent
stillan
Perhaps,but
You
look
But
Of
many
To
push the
at
my
turn
can
able combatant.
270
tricks I
know, 'tisnot
brow
:
the least
ruins of my
frame,whereon
The fire of vigourtrembles scarce
alive.
Into a heap,and send the flame aloft.
What
should I do with age ? So, sickness lends
An aid ; it being,I fear,the source
of all
We
boast of: mind is nothingbut disease,
natural health is ignorance.
And
I
Festus.
But
one
I feared
To
wreak
*Tis
not
280
see
so
Paracelsus.
am
vengeance
on
your
foes;
glad.
And
if I
please
PARACELSUS
To
spiton them,
to
them, what
trample
but the fools
truly,
but
it
No
provoke me,
on
in the shade,must
quality
Power
to
match
power,
my
He
sneers
^*
.
enemies
,r
sutler
cannot
part,if I may
my
then ?
their self-conceit;
spare
1
they must
Forbearance
99
keep
strength.
And
arms
above
am
with their
game
like
fact
those that
Communicate
Instead of
let them
and
them
Hiding the
Were
own
god,there 's no
idle scruples,
then,
what
ever
bade
me
soften
And
elevation man's
in my
it.
it
own
"
be it so
Why,
I
their
teach them
their
head.
man's !
would
300
be.
therefore,
thoughthe wreck of my past self,
fear,dear Putter,that your lecture-room
And
I
Must
wait awhile
The
who
set uj)
penitent
empiric,
For somebody,but soon
was
taughthis place
;
Now, but too happy to be let confess
His
error,
experietilia
corporc vili)
Vfiat medicine's
soundness
our
Good
310
in his jMjrson.
Wait,
Piitter !
Fcsliu.
Paracelsus.
glad
He
Ay,
who
ay,
sneers
laughat
thus,is
me
am
god !
very
PARACELSUS
loo
Festus
remains
You
Q^n
are
not
see
the
gulledby
all this
of the
root
swaggering
;
!
matter
you
I strive
how
"
^^ I'"^
""^^n^hi"
faith
How
the
motives I would
mean
make
you
think
Just
"
"
Or
wherefore
As
much
Familiar
Were
by
to
this disorder ?
You
are
vexed
views.
as
adversaries,
they
your
qualities
alight
Amid
murky souls ; not otherwise,
A stray wolf which
the winter forces down
bleak hills,
From
suffices to affright
our
their
in the vales
while foresters
village
340
all
famished
the
nightlong
Sleepcalm, though
"
troop
Snuff round
These
evil
and
thoughtsare
Paracelsus.
own
scratch
May
friend !
you
their crazy
against
monsters,
be
and
huts.
will flee.
happy,Festus, my
PARACELSUS
Festus.
Nay, further
would
The
content
you
Paracelsus.
our
Hush
! I
As
these
stimulants,
of the
joys
once
We
are
passes.
demand, nor will abate
toil'sstrict value
them,
despised
high at first
a jot
350
but time
passes o'er,
And
humbler spirits
accept what we refuse :
In short,when
such comfort is doled out
some
;
we
delights,
longretain
cannot
retire.
thankfully
Must
be lived
am
and
This
lifeof mine
earned
grave thoroughly
justfit for that and nought beside.
out
360
enjoy,
knowledgegainsthroughjoy;
I know, but straight
Nor can
reveal
tears
warm
My need of linkingalso joy to knowledge:
iSo,on I drive,enjoyingall I can,
I speak,of course,
And
knowing all I can.
Confusedly
; this will better explain feel here I
is it not?
a fire of tlie heart
Quick beating,
cannot
now
"
"
To
work
So,
F'estus
off
some
way,
this
as
well
as
any.
his calm
launched;
fairly
Compassionatelook might have disturbed
sees
me
once,
me
370
But now,
I invite
far from rejecting,
What
bids me
jiress the closer,laymyself
need
soon
Of
f?" ^^^^^
his
harmless
Though ordinaryand
In
fain Para-
nobler aims,
your
But that
delights
you
the
celsus
ne'er
think
supersedersof
Will
loi
the
of
flesh
PARACELSUS
102
and
describes
With
To
me
enduringlove. And Festus quits
credulous disciple
giveplaceto some
his
Who
^'^
way
of ^^s
his
then dismiss
And
Till
Half
merits
peculiar
I suck in
life That
And
that
admiration,380
nightis come.
studyagain,
myselfto
after hidden
searchings
patient
brighttruth from
wring some
I betake
lore
its
prison
;
frame
my
Trembles, my
forehead's veins
swell
out, my
hair
Tinglesfor triumph.
Shall break
And
on
my
Slow
pent room
and
and
sure
the
morn
dwindlinglamp
ores
When,
with
Latent
And
perfecting
my
scheme.
circumscribed,cast down
sternly
it.
the high placemy fond hopes yielded
From
Proved worthless" which, in getting,
yet had cost
frame.
wrench to this fast-falling
Another
!
that chases sorrow
the cup to quaff,
Then, quick,
back into youth,and take again
I lapse
400
God
evidence
that
pulsefor
My fluttering
his own.
Means good to me, will make my cause
I view
it
oflFthis remorseless
See !
I have
Which
born
cloggeda spirit
cast
to
soar
so
care
free,
has become
chamber
a tent,
my dim
Festus is sitting
by me, and his Mlchal
here,
Why do you start ? I say, she listening
And
PARACELSUS
103
orchard- Festus
Motions
No
as
in
echo
maiden's
quietsoul,
410
Ha,
should find
hk"vi
him
g^^ j^g ^q
redeem
the
tremble
lips
ha !
Festus.
It seems,
No
But rather
to
reap
course,
Paracelsus.
Death
To
die !
that
owe
much
least,I
To
what,
To
live contented
To
thrive and
at
fall,
reverse
will last
time.
My
And
Festus.
'
after such
planis a makeshift,but
whole
The
I should be sad
was.
I had
you have
noble jmrpose,
and
and said,
mused
never
strength
the
421
To
objectslittleworthy of
To
Why
lingerround
them
gift.
still? why clench
the
my
fault ?
Why
seek
for consolation in
In vain endeavours
I"rom
Of
? why
ugliness
seek
make
the
most
no
hold
At
their fitdestination
You
to
instead
])Ower can change,nor strive
430
mighty effort to redeem the ])a8t
what
With
derive
to
defeat.
a beauty
have
steadfast
never
Paracelsus.
thus
treasures
course
cast
down,
till 1 arrive
and my
ponderedthus
own
?'
?
Have
I, you ask ^
past
PARACELSUS
I04
He
answers
Often
Would
*L,*But
same
You
and
Chance
Just
the end
at
ever
The
as
or
...
thingin a tale,a
I, wanderingover
the world
wide,
set
to
we
440
'
the inveterate silence of these rocks !
Broke
startles us
echo
querulous
ravagedstructure
Their
"
come,
at
What
we
turn
sea
Or
characters
singswhat
we
This
mocking it.
recover,
voice,the wind's.
my
\_Hesings.
Over
With
To
the
sea
went,
galleys
our
cleaving
prows
wind
speeding
armament
gallant
built out
bark
Each
in order
and
450
brave
boundingwave,
of
forest-tree
Left
And
and
Within
bear
So, each
Rude
But
Where
suppledin flame,
billows' game :
the playful
good shipwas rude to see,
in fat and
Seethed
To
and bare
to
the outward
view.
tent
upborea stately
in scented row
cedar pales
each
dancing brine.
And
an
awning droopedthe mast below,
In fold on fold of the purple
fine.
Kept
out
460
PARACELSUS
105
neither noontide
That
starshine
nor
mad,
Nor
When
the
His song
sun
pliedthe oar ;
But when
the night-windblew like breath.
For joy of one
day'svoyage more.
the wide sea.
We sang together
on
shore ;
Like men
a peaceful
at peace on
We
set
Each
sail was
Each
helm
loosed
made
to
the wind
by
sure
free.
so
twilight
the
star,
And
in
sleepas
calm
death,
from afar.
as
circle round
its wondrous
481
tent
curled rich
and
gleamed soft light
Whence
crew
scent,
with
And
So
the
music
and jjerfume,
light
wheeled
stars
round, and
too
ness
the dark-
past.
And
at
And
stilleach
Now,
we
morn
morn,
one
shipwas
land
appeared a speck
"
Dim
'
'
The
'
490
liut the
For
And
So,
Let
we
palesaway.
purpleawning (lapin the wind.
broke
the
And
statue
the cedar
brightwas
on
every
deck
PARACELSUS
io6
We
His song
shouted,every
And
pomp
shapesof
hundred
All
us,
steered
With
of
man
lucid
stone
500
Nor
day we
pausedtillin
We
To
the beach
togetheron
sat
singbecause
When
westeringsun
the
task
our
was
songs !
stirs1
shouts and
lo ! what
done.
merry
What
'
'
'
"
desolate.
How
Yet
Our
once
gifts,
Our
To
called
we
mar
'
out
"
:
freight
precious
Depart!
given,must
work
is done
; we
our
work,'
we
"
cried.
Festus. In truth ?
Paracelsus.
On
ruggedstones
In order
'
The
To
Nay, wait
once:
sad
strewn
allthis in
then follows
rhyme
of the
and
their firstfault,
faint
tracings
men
"
mark
who
withered
what
piled
follows !
proudlyclung
in their pride.'
PARACELSUS
Festus.
Come
fear
God,
This
then, Aureole
back
as
It is
you
irn^
fo"t
come
is foul sin ;
107
back
come
the
Renounce
^^^^j^
past,
the future ; look for
Forswear
trust
Return
with
event
"
Einsiedeln,dear Aureole
to
me
No
Paracelsus.
no
way,
good.
child sleeps
on
spotless
turn
summons
for the
me
way
!
not
to
the
but when
floweringmoss
"
sinful man,
floor
stone
No
mossy
Festus.
one
may
pillowblue
I
no
see
writhe
with
like
on
worm
violets !
passions.You
And
tyrannous
This
verse-makingcan
are
calmer
well
purge you
now.
enough
Without
You
Outrageyour friend.
Say but the word !
Paracelsus.
They
crouch, I
To
once
Einsiedeln,
more
eye
Thrust
Beside you ; 'tis their nature.
yourself
fool
and their jjrey ; let some
them
Between
styleme
then try
not
king or quack,it matters
Your wisdom, urge them to foregotheir treat
Or
"
PARACELSUS
io8
Festus
No,
no
^^^ile you
his
-^s
own
God's
how
devil
though we
wc
differ?
so
proceed,
Whether
for good or
ill;
not
To
hope, and
you
To
Paracelsus.
Listen
Festus.
me
560
which !
me,
born
was
trust
I do
keep from
Do
within
sneers
of this,now
that,
now
talking
in trifles!
differed scarcely
save
are
Festus. Do
glory,not
deeper,Festus
the fruits!
know
you
what
believe,
call
you
trust
Was
So
A
self-delusion
long as God
path for you,
Procure
Man's
would
and
But
mere
569
in his service
you
yieldyou
"
God,
in
fact,
to
say
last,
example? None
will so plainas you,
God's
trace
impliedin
he determines
an
you
fail.
fools !
and
fit,
not
brook.
579
your way,
Such discontent
all creatureship
at once
absolute
energies
; as
rush
now
while
AflRrm
it ; but
who
we,
And
We
the
selfishness without
In short, God's
Your
fears,on
world,
lot,
"
yours
Remained
As
man's
content
you were
What
is it,at
!
courtly
praises
Could
And
the
your slave
turn
Most
'
and
hopes
limitless licence,make
And
from
you
full exemptionfrom
common
for,see
kindlypioneer
screen
pretext
your engagement
Of
A
you
the best
at
to
the
ocean
what
have
we
to
say
do
"
PARACELSUS
109
in the vales, He
feedingstreamlets,
lingering
?
Set up that plea,
in lazypools
Sleeping
[ /^^
With
'
That
will be bold
at
least !
Paracelsus.
The
God's
'Tis like
enough, glory is
with
one
doubt,
s
ma.n
bids,
serviceable
are
those, no
spirits
The
East produces
:
lo,the master
They wake, raise terraces and garden-grounds
In one
night'sspace ; and, this done, straight
begin
591
Another
to the great praise
century's
sleej),
"
Of
him
Till
that framed
lamp'srubbing,or
them again. I am
Wake
beautiful.
chance akin.
wise
them
and
some
of different mould.
I would
And
for my pains
thus I get rewarded
!
Beside, 'tisvain to talk of forwarding
And
God's
600
gloryotherwise ; this is alone
The sphereof its increase,as far as men
Increase it; why, then, look beyondthis sphere?
We
his glory
be glorious,
are
; and if we
Is not the thingachieved ?
Shall
Festus.
you
have
left your
like
one
Though
years
first love,and
me
have
retain
For, wherefore
Had
at
repining
ne'er
trium])h
I urge you
And
what
Of
this
to
defeat
inured you to
forsake the life you
success
attends
weakness
passion,
and
me
?
"
remorse
610
high hopes?
curse,
simplytalk
; in
short,
PARACELSUS
no
He
invokes
Festus
contempt
truth
and
choose
you
"
hold
cheaply
Once
return
more,
Paracelsus.
Do
you not
and my
Me
from
me
scorn
hearts,
outward
crust
629
lies which
Wrapt
"
God
Even
Is
heart of
My rhymes
My glozingself-deceit,
my
Of
your
flatters: but my
I would
true.
friend,at least.
secure
depart,
hate
Againstall further insult,
From
puny
brand
fear of
No
foes ; my
me
no
There
;
are
and
wrong
friend's
one
scorn
shall
sinkingdeeper!
No, dear Aureole
Festus.
No,
henceforth
to
came
old
counsel
made
rules,
faithfully.
longere we were born.
I, so fallible,
judgeyou.
So infinitely
low beside your mighty
640
Majesticspirit! even I can see
You own
some
higherlaw than ours which call
Sin,what is no sin weakness, what is strength.
But I have onlythese,such as they are.
To guideme ; and I blame you where theybid,
By
which
"
"
PARACELSUS
Festus
To
soul
for your
peace
the
that
more,
jells
MTchal'
sorrow
and
of late,
that I faint not under my
Has
fallen on
So
me
death
distress.
to avow
scruple
of all,as brother judging
brother.
In spite
?
to
me
Your fate is most
inexplicable
without recompense
should you perish
And
satisfactionyet too hastily
And
650
"
relied
I have
love
on
sinned,
have
may
you
human
matter
But you have loved. As a mere
men
As I would have God deal with fragile
In the end
will
"
'tis because
You
love
Sorrow, and
me.
Well
thoughton
Dull
winding-upof
Insult
me
me
"
Festus. Your
Festus ?
sweet
"
659
Michal yours !
this last
never
triumphyet !
you feltsorrow,
Paracelsus. Have
she loved
ill success
so,
"
can
"
dared
grieveher not !
littlegrieveher
now.
Paracelsus. Michal
do
not
Festus.
me
craze
is dead
! pray Christ
wc
not
on
thus !
the
heart
grown
sorrow-
proof
"
cannot
FcsiuSf 'Tis
scarce
Among
"
laid her
the flowers
month.
Stone dead !
Paracelsus.
have
dead
Nay, really
then
you
669
ere
this.
PARACELSUS
112
Paracelsus
secret
for
his
comfort
cheat
"
the
[^jjyg
grave
then,
To
the
cold
earth
believe
we
do
For
but
did
you
ill
have
not
think,
mcn
far better
not
Aureole
Festus.
julcp, 38
pQ
Know,
comfort
shall
which
secret
jVyg,-, yoy^
^^
reveal
can
secret.
trust
to
love
your
of
much
thought
wholly
die.
do
laugh
it
Paracelsus.
Nay,
not
is
there
reason
For
Taste
unfit
to
think,
put
take
it
Festus.
as
strange
so
of
But
not
see,
may
you
thought
words
680
dead.
is not
this
on
never
can
as
she
trust,
my
soul
the
just now,
am,
dress
intelligible
an
But
say
death.
Very
In
what
alone
account
you
surely,
Aureole,
"
Paracelsus.
While
moved
am
As
though
So
it be
Have
Troop
And
About
you
and
hoping
how
it mattered
leave
to
will,
in
a
sleeps
Basil,
at
along
?
the
among
rabble
safety to
clear
perish for
the
your
despairing.
farce plays out.
and
the
! while
arena
full of schemes
and
Away,
quickly played.
your
all
dews.
Nuremberg,
For
Michal
And
and
roots
this
believed
have
you
away
fightthe prize,
we
back-seats
snug
for
691
brave
the
sport !
Behold
"
PART
PARACELSUS
Scene.
ATTAINS
Sahburg
"
of St.
cell in the
Sebastian.
54
Hospital
Paracelsus
Festus,
The
change !
weary
well-nighspent,
lamp burns low, and through
Festiis. No
The
night is
^^^tch.
the
case-
^eath-
ment-bars
bed
That
Those
fixed eyes,
I,ike torch-flame
mouth,
no
pang
relit
While
in dust.
all
beside
Was
But
breaking,to the
a
strongholdwhere
they are dead now
He
will drowse
My
Aureole
The
days
As
thou
And
arc
wast
not
now
down
"
"
Festus
last
they
held
out
life intrenched
bright,
itself;
10
ruinetl Aureole
!
forgotten,
How
grand
are
gone !
gone,
my
!
one
of
those
who
struck
thee
of
Para-
celsus
PARACELSUS
114
him
glorious
spiritconcerns
himself his littlehand
satisfy
hoping Poor
for
word
of
"
And
Q^^
j,y j^^
jQ
"
Another
That
And
Know
his
From
look
and
me,
on
but he will
speakto
sure
me
21
swelled.
yet I could
They
'tismuch
but
"
throat
And
more
Looked
At
and
me,
Once
stay
jjyjj ^^"
"
recognition
to
even
told
turn
not
how,
me
In truth.
away.
first
when
brought here,
he seemed
Resolved
live,to lose
to
faculty
;
no
Thus
Until
When
white
The
flushed
face,and relaxed
the
limb.
quivering
intense awhile
the eye remained
the tomb-like
though it recognised
Only
As
And
then
layas
he
here
place,
he lies.
Her
Ay, here !
is earth's noblest,
noblygarlanded
bravest championwith his well-won prize
Her
best
For
countless
And
followed
She
instances
Here
The
"
"
fast
fleeting
generations
by no trace ; the creature-god
40
when
angelswould dispute
"
Angels,this
amends
is
our
to
angel!
rank
with
Those
them.
brightforms
PARACELSUS
We
human, but
Whom
other
^^"h
not
men
Those
are
palaces
is for
Higher provision
Amid
Behold
pomps and
earth's paragon
God
Thou
Even
as
art
it here !
faith on
I build my
beside
thy tortured
whose
hot
49
Now,
that.
child
fall fast
tears
by him.
through the
doth
So
seek
you
love !
I watch
Unconscious
him
: see
glories
our
crown
purple,
clothe with
Are
iiS
world
Wherein
How
stumble.
we
say ?
else should he
shall we
! what
How
sinned ?
he
has
God
done ?
have
for
Surelyhe sought thy praise thy praise,
He might be busied by the task so much
awhile its proper end.
As half forget
"
Dost
well, Lord
thou
Thou
canst
not
prefer
That
How
Thy
I should
Save
We
would
his side
God
"
set
grantedhim
have crowned
Or,
star.
him, dear
bathe
In
myselfu])on
range
halo round
but
60
Success,thyhonour
A
all
success,
say he erred,
it will be like thee
"
him
lightand
life!
should be wroth
Thou
art
in such
not
a
like us;
; but thou
made
case
these passionate
thoughts
forgive
Which
come
unsoughtand will not pass away! 70
I know
thee, who hast kept my path,and made
sorrow
Ligiitfor me in the darkness, tempering
Forgivest
"
so,
PARACELSUS
ii6
Para-
So that it reached
celsus
It
^^^p?
^"
he
That
way
Reserved
But he
Ah
joy;
doubt thy love,
and knowest
him
madest
"
I could
fashioned.
was
:
Thou
^^^ '^^^^^ ^^
How
solemn
too
were
like
me
err
never
the
for
"
wakens
! he
Aureole,
well!
as
here ! 'tis
am
Festus !
I
80
all wishes
away
him but know
me,
cast
Let
He
mutters
I, with
What
he
"
onlyspeak to
me
louder and
Than
wish
one
save
Aureole, do
Dear
forth.
pours
but
look!
this
singing,
Is it talking
or
husband
with
his eye.
all the while !
me
other
Which
"
I heard
my
amid
name
he will know
Oh,
fix
me
those
Could
yet !
Erasmus
am
Paracelsus
That
am
here
use
must
for
questions
These
are
His
Our
class awaits
eye
me
recognise
pray
his skill for me.
your
send
resolve.
to
learning
master
leave
100
what
cell,
wretched
91
I divert
to
your students,noble
This
know
gentlyback
The
We
ever
It
heard,I
rapidwords.
This
Brighterthan
fast ?
he utters
PARACELSUS
the
(O agony!
Touches
I
him
Better be
I shall
Stay,stay with
Paracelsus.
To
The
melodies
Get
to
But
I made
him
Has
he
not
cold hand
for
out
his music
softly
chanted
I could
all night?
I heard
on
well
's
Where
Festus !
here
come
know
must
Paracelsus.
Aprile,then
am
"
^pj-iig
shall send.
!
me
I will ; I
Festus.
thoughts
?)
ear
like him.
craze
God
what
see
his
arrest
...
and
mute
His
do
can
else
how
commissioned
am
utmost
not
117
no
not
breast.
my
enough,
well
Festus.
Paracelsus.
Knows
as
he Loves
if I shall Love
"
Festus.
We
get
'Tis
an
so
curse,
they set
about their
But
when
another
rock
Jove
Festus.
would
preparedhis
And
so
cruelly,
Could
mountain-piling
the work.
crown
what
thunder
these
to
are
Paracelsus.
So
down.
plunge
Astonished
And
cold !
Aprile!
Ajirile,
!
very, very near
Jove strikes the Titans
when
"
so
so
"
old tale :
Phaeton
tread
120
Not
And
"
AJi, the
near
if Ajirilc
and Know
My hand, see
Paracelsus.
him
Ay,
well !
most
fiends
like I
calm,
must
never
underfoot,
single
pleasure
laugh
130
PARACELSUS
ii8
by my side,were chuckling
grinning
triumphs 'Po see me toil and drop away by flakes !
*"
that thus 1
^/.^
Hell-spawn ! I am glad,most glad,
illHe
But
theywere
"
^'.,
fail!
own
fame
One
year.
curbed your
should have
You
its ami.
Your
turn
awhile.
spite
But
now,
Who
And
but
none
Measureless
who
laughs
scorn
me,
upon
me,
names
none
but
spits
alone,
liar, all on me
141
me
!
quack,the cheat,the
And
thus your famous planto sink mankind
In silence and despair,
by teachingthem
had probedthe inmost truth,
One
of their race
The
"
Had
Your
less
"
despair?
empiric.
ha !
No,
no
the firstand
am
who
friend,
Festus. Dear
has done
ask that ?
By
men
Oh,
the others !
Here
or
stand my
accursed ? who
are
What
Paracelsus.
Brave
last,I think.
have
I done ?
Fiends dare
you.
you
What
can
backed
chime in boldly,
had you
rivals ;
to
PARACELSUS
Greek, joindead
Is, that the world
A
And
hands
me
against
enrol
"
^1
119
-I
this poor
with
name
my
all I ask.
and
exults
theirs,
over
his
it seems,
privilege,
rivals of
They range themselves,preparedto disallow.
old time
Only observe! why, fiends may learn from them !
How
theytalk calmlyof my throes, my fierce
terrible watchings,
each one
claiming
Aspirings,
Its priceof blood and brain ; how they dissect
even
And
while
And
Grey
their dead
browbeatingme
names
170
crew.
Yet
steepedin
Is there
Have
reason
shaken
fresh malevolence
from
hell,
wc
To
whom
Galen
The
ot
wretch in chief
yellowblear-eyed
the rest cringe
low with feigned
respect,
and
hell
181
Pergamos
nay 8]x?ak
That
"
old
tale,
I said the
We
meet
Look
in that
as
brow
to
We
Persic
Who
"
Could
To
! Have
Peace, peace
1 redeemed
stand
Zoroaster,lord of
through gloom
After
no
more
my
?
pledge
ah, see !
of fame
Oh, emjjtiness
at
stars!
dead
longago.
world
living
where
they stood,
indeed,
But
Once
face
gaze
to
ghastlyvestibule :
Paracelsus.
Oh
there face
met
crown
my
Feslus.
man
190
longer?
the shade
What
In truth,my
warm
lightlife
delicate witch,
PARACELSUS
I20
He
My
regrets The
^^y
/human
love
The
had
^^^^
harmless o'er
""""
not
was
cave
Fire
else detected.
I
juggles
so
hide
to
breast like
darkened
by
yours!
the smoke
passionate
gestures then,
of charms.
the charm
I have forgotten
But now
to seek,
The foolish knowledgewhich I came
dance ; and thus
that quaint
While
I remember
I cared
for your
not
201
come
am
But
Soft
kiss your
ermine's winter coat !
to
as
an
to
Festus.
through these
struggle
Will
littlefeet
light
words
thronging
at
last.
in the angry and
soft star trembles
As
A
These
The
Were
clouds.
throughthe drifting
which hates
of a spirit
strivings
210
he
liinsiedeln
at
"
Paracelsus.
claspher
or
Michal
I shriek
"
West
sad
So
the
are
tumultuous
here 1
now
"
I kneel
"
vesture
but she
"
fades,stillfades
love is gone !
human
she is gone ; sweet
that angels
to heaven
'Tis onlywhen theyspring
And
themselves
them
We
I
are
am
not
so
to
you
220
secure
foul play;
against
even
now
PARACELSUS
The
No
and
00
TTTi
clings
j^i,:?"
nis
treacheryis goingon.
some
.rr-..
deepenand
shadows
doubt
121
.,
in
Where
Tis very dusk.
we
are
put, Aprile r dreams
Have
they left us in the lurch ? This murky
loathsome
is not the hall
this slaughter-house,
Death-trap,
In the goldencity!
Keep by me, Aprile!
amid the blackness
There is a hand groping
Have
the spider
To catch us.
fingers
got you.
Poet?
Hold
on
They pullyou
us
Let
us
!
"
for your
Hold !
life!
'Tis
dream
but
this
of trouble,
spite
That
The
as
stream
some
But after
foams
to
glideth
glassy
ordeal
more
Vibrates
too
be my lot ? 240
Your clear voice
poet?Louder!
Do
like a harp-string.
could I stillremain
the rocks
the sea,
think you,
How
no
230
])assed.
longamong
shall henceforth
"
once
labours ascertained,
value of my
Just
If
out again;
comes
you still; the sun
be happy : all will yet go well !
confer : is it not like,Aprile,
I have
Let
me
on
you
ask
earth,should God
I seek ?
which
approval
I, you, and God can comprehendeach other,
and with cause
But men
would murmur,
enough;
For when
they saw me, stainlessof all sin.
Preserved and sanctified by inward light.
They would complainthat comfort, shut from
Grant
the great
me
them,
Nor
taste
live on,
unc8pied
; that they
of a constant
the quiet
joy,
For
ache
and
I drank
While
thus
am
care
calm ;
and
doulit and
250
weariness.
helpbeingvouchsafed
to
mc,
PARACELSUS
122
He
feels And
the need
of a hfe
'Twere
"
You
reason
If thou
if thou
dear God,
please,
shalt
"
shalt
!
please
We
are
weak,
so
sought
but
...
least
motives
our
beginning.If
In their confused
know
we
wherefore
at
bare
first
my
260
heart to
thee?
I know
thy mercy
fast about
Flock
my
and
alreadythoughts
soul
to
comfort it.
whollyfail,
would claspme
For love and praise
willingly
Thou
art good,
Could I resolve to seek them.
I
And
intimate
And
I should be content.
I have
done
cannot
in
wrong
Yet
yet firstshow
"
Rather
give
strength
daring!
consciousness of
supernatural
fed my youth! Only one hour of that 270
Which
With thee to help O what should bar me then?
The
"
Thus
Lost, lost!
thingsare
ordered
here!
God's
creatures.
And
yet he takes no pridein us ! none,
Truly there needs another life to come !
"
If this be all
And
other
tell Festus
(I must
"
life await
us
not
"
none
that)
for one,
bungle,
cheat,a stupid
failure. I, for one, protest
wretched
Againstit,and
thoughalone
Well, onward
And
much
I hurl it back
to
do
must
with
scorn.
Small time
have
279
remains,
must
fruit,
reap
PARACELSUS
from
profit
hardlyserve
Some
Will
123
I doubt
toils.
my
have
while
through;
me
body
my
as
f"jj
Jj^-j^
laboured
decayed;
It has
and
that I demand
now
full
very
thought,a sad fate ! How
that justat altar-service.
Of wormwood
'tis,
smoke,
with the rolling
The
rapt hymn rising
sad
sacred
And
die for
of
want
pulleddown
Let
faint
grow
290
help!
wood-piler's
the soul
in the overthrow.
Well, well
"
men
Of what
They
the best.
body,and
flagging
fades the
Thus
at
flicker and
fire may
The
Is
and all is
glorydawns
When
Trust
ruins !
are
who
me
am
of
one
you!
All ruins,glorious
once,
It makes
lieart sick
crouch
behold
to
fane
your desolate
Beside
you
the arches
dim,
the
crumblingcolumns grand against
The
I but
Could
May
Why
A
my
lonelynow.
but
be,so
never
them
more
once
up
leave them
here when
linger
all your
tcni])Ic,
resplendent
Trust
they are
me,
will
With
not
better
Should
I would
but ruins !
Yet
heed !
moon,
friends.
I have
built
Sec, Ajjrile,
I
were
me,
own
299
but that
"
Trust
should you
far
Men
rear
not
jjrepared
tongue of mine
blank their dwellingis:
refugefor them,
in silence with
at me,
Ha, what ? you sj)it
Contempt into
my
car
"
you
my
the
grinand
ear
which
rest.
shriek 310
drank
his
PARACELSUS
124
He
de- God's
precates
of
accents
once
men,
men,
^^^
formed
'""
curse
you
for it ?
Those
hideous eyes
men
Will
be before
Why,
me
waking,praying,
sleeping,
They will not let me even die. Spare,spare me.
Sinningor no, forgetthat,onlyspare me
The horrible scorn
! You thoughtI could support
me
it.
But
now
Cowers
Not
Christ
PerhapsI
creature
fragile
silly
not
good nor bad enough.
am
Cain, yet
nor
Hate
From
what
see
you
thus.
like this.
Cain
even
Let
saved 320
but totter back!
me
was
jeerswhich
creep
and
scorched
shut
these
very brain,
Eyelidsand keep those mocking faces out.
Into my
am
the blood
calm
Enough
I will exterminate
of that
And
now
Who
broke
And
such
thing:
leapslike an imprisoned
'tissaid and
be merry
Festus.
the
race
it shall be.
safe and
sound
am
330
me.
Aureole
Is gone,
And
even
Lean
on
you
wretched
are
me.
forget
me
thus.
Paracelsus.
As
so
you
Aureole
come
am
at
Do
left
me
Take
you
pure Michal
my
"
now.
my
not
hand
"
know
me.
Festus, my
own
friend,you
last?
say, 'tisan
awful
enterprise
;
are
PARACELSUS
125
Michal
Flames
the
fives
fight
up
*"
'^
for me,
Dear
He
See how
in the
sunset
light:
glancing
you mightconceive them
white-haired Jews
A troop of yellow-vested,
land where
for their own
Bound
redemption
Gay
in the
dawns.
Festus. Not
he is
Ha
"
"
not
youth's
our
stay ! true, I
forget
"
all is
since,
to
come
judgeme.
How
he
speaks.
How
calm,how well ! yes, it is true, all true; 350
All quackery; all deceit ; myselfcan
laugh
The
You
tricks
foreignto my nature
envy and hate,
brutal prejudice.
Blind opposition,
if I sunk
Bald ignorance what wonder
?
the way they most
To humour
men
a])proved
never
palmedon such as you.
My cheats were
I will kneel if you require
Dear
Festus !
me.
Impartthe meagre knowledge 1 jjossess, 3O0
Explainits bounded nature, and avow
whate'er you will :
My insufficiency
I givethe fight
up : let there be an end,
obscure nook for me.
A privacy,
an
I want
to be forgotten
even
by God.
But if that cannot
be, dear F'estus,laymc.
I shall die,within some
When
narrow
grave,
be too proud
Not by itself for that would
So
"
"
"
"
"
But where
such
graves
are
thickest
let it look
PARACELSUS
126
and
asks
to be
"th"
in his
death
from
distinguished
Nowise
3o
And
Or
the hillocks
at
and
own
it not
know
classed
Fathers, sons,
wise,
brothers,friends
"
Nor
:
gifted
layme
Too
much
rich,nor
not
thus,then say,
advanced
They kepthim
He
'
stillin front
men
so, here
Festus. That
dear
his
God
least he is
at
lived
men
It were
But yet a dangerousstation.
That he should tellGod
he had never
Unto
shall all be
we
With
round,370
good
strange
ranked
380
man.'
to
his
breast,
spirit.
breast,be
! and
sure
here
on
earth
Shall
Then,
With
who
which
as
The
should
sneer
thy deeds
a:t
born, would
were
scorn
well
sheet of
PARACELSUS
127
He
thee first;
recognise
thee earlyand late, ^j.']^
I saw
thee rise,I watched
And
though no glancereveal thou dost accept delirium
it,
My homage thus no less I proffer
And
bid thee enter
thy rest.
gloriously
Thou
august.
so
"
Festus !
Paracelsus.
Festus.
I
am
his
upon
I would
Reward
find
canst
shall be
His
slave for
ever.
Paracelsus.
Dear
There
are
Festus
1 will be
of
two
dear
us.
Aureole
you !
by
ever
410
placefor him.
no
Here,
Festus.
I waive
or
king elsewhere,and
He
well.
enough.
strong
him
Reward
If thou
has done
I been
woe.
or
He
mine.
sinned,had
have
he has sinned.
As
weal
side,come
shall be
portion
His
Aureole, God
for noble
am
Paracelsus.
Nay, sjjeak
on,
or
I dream
again.
Speak on !
voice.
Some
story, anything onlyyour
else. Speak on ! ay, leaning
so
I shall dream
Festus. Thus
the Mayne glideth
"
Where
Love
my
abideth.
softer : it
Sleep's no
through lawns, on
On
jjroceeds
throughmeads,
befall,
Meandering and musical.
Though the niggardpasturage
Bears not on its shaven ledge
Aught but weeds and waving grasses
On
and
To
view
Save
Of
A
on,
whate'er
the river
here and
there
too
primroses
weary
bee.
it ])asses.
as
a
scanty
patch
faint to catch
420
PARACELSUS
128
More,
Paracelsus.
Festus
speaks
soothing
Festus.
more
And
scarce
on
say
430
it pushes
rushes
gentle
way throughstrangling
Where
the glossykingfisher
Its
words
noon-heats
Flutters when
Glad
the
and
Red
are
banks
shelving
steamingin the
to
shun,
sun.
with
the shrew-mouse
Where
near,
palethroat
Where
the
stoat
;
speckled
flit
quicksandpipers
In and
out
That
440
them, brown
breed
to
seems
grit
as
they:
Nought
some
simplewords
those
heart,
glideth
What
doing when
you
were
your
broke
voice
through
A
of
chaos
Are
All alone
Festus.
brick and
Kept in
you
know
me
vault :
unexceptionable
stone
snug nook
the bats
how
purpose
am
keptout,
the
rats
should I mistake
"
for
it?
I here ?
Paracelsus.
Why,
cell?
Paracelsus. An
Good
alone here ?
you
This
You, indeed
uglyimages?
purpose, Festus !
PARACELSUS
'Tis like
me
129
And
will ne'er
this occasion,
lost,
You
are
here
God's message
I fear
but I have
leave half
to
No
doubt
He
would
so
460
much
out.
else have
Para-
celsus
describes
to
say,
All is confused
tions
return.
I will tell
be instructed.
to
fleets,
broughtyou
here
no
doubt
clearer
I shall see
soon.
Tell
Festus.
You
in
not
are
Alas,alas !
he knows
not,
is it you would
Paracelsus. What
that
I feared !
ask
with
me
earnest
How
Festus.
Well
Paracelsus.
Well.
now
Calm
With
The
its career.
And
the
But is it earth
With
And
and
"
no
less
mixed
up
hurricane is spent,
ing weatiier
The
470
how
t firstjxrrceive
was
Festus,
strange thing:I am dying,
of lifesubsides,
that fast the storm
'Tis
And
as
face ?
searching
Dear
"
?
despair
Paracelsus.
Festus.
but this
me
or
;
sea
that heaves
below ?
479
Swims
And
now
PARACELSUS
I30
to them,
Unrooted, with their birds stillclinging
Even so my varied life
approach All high in the wind.
of death ]j,.|fts
by me ; I am young, old, happy,sad,
acting,takingrest.
Hoping,desponding,
all at once
And
: that is,those
past conditions
at the
Float back
at
epoch from
special
Some
the
will,and straight
To
If I select
me.
on
once
the
crowd,
491
'tisbut
dissolve away.
rest
is present
state
onlythat particular
circumstance
all its long-forgotten
With
Distinct and vivid as at first myself
And
"
and
nothingmore,
amused, but nothingmore.
careless looker-on
Indifferent and
this is death
New
beingwaits
me
in
born
Be
me
before
Which
last is Death's
Minute
by
With
minute
power
it all.
I understand
And
he
must
perceptions
500
I plungetherein ;
affair; and while I speak.
is filling
me
new
and while my
the threshold
foot is on
unopenedyet,
within
All preparations
not
complete
I turn new
knowledgeupon old events.
Of
boundless
"
And
the effect is
It is
not
One
but I
.
lawful.
day. Wait,
Your
own
Festus
must
will
turn
tell;
not
come
just
me
's lifeto
What
In truth, I wonder
too.
Where'er
where'er
fire,
I look is
Music, and
how
hear.
to
now
Yet
509
You
where
can
Delightto
I listen
I refrain ?
view
me
those
'Tis
chances,
"
refined
one
last view.
PARACELSUS
That
To
0
I escape,
perils
playwith them and turn
the
near
so
am
must
they
fully
"'
feel how
Ml
like,
IS
them
sao
message
"
exists
cause
hidden purpose ;
mood
some
peculiar
Did I not tell you somethingof it,Festus ?
1 had it fast,
but it has somehow
slipt
Away from me ; it will return anon.
Festus. (Indeedhis cheek seems
young again,
For
this
"
his voice
But
one
now
who
traces
in
wreck
ghastly
an
!)
And
Dear
then
That
are
worldlythings
utter
found
it be.
can
last
at
out
vanity?
That
man
is made
Paracelsus.
Ha,
the purpose:
that is it !
could I fail to
How
I thus!
But
no
more
You iicrc,
!
aj)prchend
I see all,
trilling:
I know
posture
thus about
to
is
reminded
over,
gone.
further
some
He
past and
are
r,
"
"
otill,It
131
speak:
PARACELSUS
132
Fes/us.
and
prepares
to deliver
You
Not
even
Speak from
My gown
chain
about my
Is stillupon
This
my
once
lectured thus.
fur ;
now
550
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thy master's
couch
shrine,for
cell become
this wretched
consecrate,
help;
no
my signet-ring
hand, I think-^-even so ;
neck
never
"
The
couch ?
help;
So ! there,I stand
hand.
your
!
more
Be
you wild ?
here
God
speaks to
through
men
me.
Now, Festus, I
Festus. I
am
am
dumb
Paracelsus.
There
readyto begin.
with wonder.
Festus! 560
Listen,therefore,
will be time
Then
That
man
are
is bound
to
Have
Paracelsus.
We
have
God's
to
live alone
praise.'Tis
to
set
lived !
forth well
true, I sinned
much,
thought,
And
To
I
570
in effect need
do that very
as
mercy,
for I
thing; but,do
strove
your best
PARACELSUS
Or
Who
of
him, because
from
calls me
He
rises,and
praise
worst,
Pardon
I33
himself
to
might laugh
as
ever.
denied
praise
lays
his
case
"
exalt himself?
to
He
Festus
laugh!
But all comes
Festus.
To
the
To
fret themselves
thing.
same
what
with
them
concerns
not;
They
are
Content
as
God
In thriveless
No,
no
them,
mistake
lie down
they should
go mad
nor
580
is ill.
better what
to
cares
Paracelsus.
not
me
let me
work
not
More
that way
has made
use
no
harm
I have
than
worked
This
is my
case:
him,
"
thus
surely
stillawait
while higherprizes
me,
mortal |)ersevering
to the end.
not
With
on
Beside
It may
deceived !
am
590
valueless :
all so
not
be
I have
been
for man's
What
That
time
will decide.
Paracelsus.
Festus.
hapi)y?
was
answer
to
sake.
When
All
What
hope to know
happy time
self
my-
man
Great
!
God,
thy judgmentsarc
scrutable
in-
PARACELSUS
134
Paracelsus.
He
started in
in
Yes, it was
me
born
was
for it
600
"
^' Paracelsus:
^fother
men
Doubtless
and
searching
motions
Like
by right.
impetuoussoul
mine
it was
that
the world
it about
task
some
To
fillthe
ours
creature
for
Hungry
"
"
But this
Thus
The
born
was
me
saved
time
much
in
;
:
the feverish
saved
may be
human
From
You
The
appetites,
unproveddesire,the unaimed
blind.
aspirations
yearnings,
As
so
tumult of
Uncertain
Were
made
was
bade
me
sure
thus I entered
I
not
was
trouble ;
on
in
my
tears
course.
all exempt
justso
planta surer
sun-road,keptmy
me
ends
much
of doubt
foot upon
eye unruined 'mid
630
PARACELSUS
fierce and
The
On
sufferance
To
at
stand
not
"
as
warned
to
idlygaze,
heart
my
I stood there
me
but
cast
knowing
^''""^^
nature
Light on
I stood
set
flashing
splendour,
much
Trembling so
13S
the
of the world
secret
hfe
mine.
was
felt,(perception
unexpressed,
thought.
Uncomprehendedby our narrow
I knew, I
felt and
But somehow
And
Of
"
the
What
body,even)
"
life is
From
whom
God
is,what
tastes
an
are,
we
infinitejoy
bliss.
everlasting
all beingemanates, all power
whom
Proceeds
what
God
how
"
In infiniteways
Yet
known
one
"
is lifefor evermore.
existence in its lowest form
in whom
enjoymentthere is he :
stilla flying
With
pointof bliss remote,
in store afar,a sphere
A happiness
650
Of distant gloryin full view ; thus climbs
and for ever.
Pleasure its heightsfor ever
Includes
where
dwells
The
centre-fireheaves
And
the earth
underneath
changes like
the
human
earth.
face
rocks,
into the stone's heart, outbranches bright
Winds
In hidden mines, spots barren river-beds.
The
molten
Crumbles
ore
bursts up among
the
sunbeams
bask
"
are
joys therein. The wroth sea's waves
edged
of hate, 660
With
foam, white as the bitten li])
When, in the solitary
waste, strange groujjs
God
Of young
volcanos
come
up, cyclops-like,
tiicir eyes on flame
Staringtogetherwith
in
God
tastes a pleasure
"
their uncouth
])ridc.
PARACELSUS
136
Creation
is
cone
summa
faculties
of
man
wintryclod :
dancingpsaltress,
passes
Then
}'ju(.
like
spring-wind,
it,rare verdure
l^uds tenderly
upon rough banks,between
and the cracks of frost,
The withered tree-roots
Like
waken
smile
The
to
grass
blooms
with
"
His
To
man
Of
of
being,the completion
Of
life: whose
Been
this
attributes had
sphere
here
and
Asking to
To
of this scheme
the consummation
"
be combined, dim
be united in
all,
there
before.
meant
fragments
wondrous
whole,
throughoutcreation,
Imperfect
qualities
creature
one
Suggestingsome
yet to make,
Some
pointwhere
some
690
meet
Convergentin
Power
the facultiesof
man.
controlled
nor
blindly,
knowledge; to be used
Calmlyby perfect
At risk,inspired
checked by hope and fear :
or
but the slow
Knowledge not intuition,
"
"
PARACELSUS
Uncertain fruit of
an
I37
enhancingtoil,
not serenely
: love
pure,
Strengthened by love
^
"n
r
I
i"ut
weakness,
strong rrom
Which,
cast
on
receives
"
1-1
hke
plant
and
from
illuminastubborn soil,
puts forth changedtion
buds
700
And
in
happierclimes
softer stains,
unknown
Love which endures and doubts and is
oppressed
And
and
much
much
cherished, suffering
sustained,
And
love,
blind,oft-failing,
yet believing
A half-enlightened,
trust :
often-chequered
Hints and previsions
of which faculties,
Arc strewn
everywhereabout
confusedly
The
inferior natures, and all lead up higher.
All shape out dimlythe superior
race.
The heir of hopes too fair to turn out false,710
"
And
man
appears
life; one
Is put on
One scheme
at
last.
stage of
wound
beingcomplete,
and
from
the grand
uj):
rcFult
A
of
light.
inferior grades,explains
reflux
supplementary
i'lach back
Not
alone
qualities,
those
And
for
descried,imprints
earth ; man,
once
ever
His
Are
A
the winds
presence on alllifelessthings:
henceforth voices,wailingor a shout,
mutter
querulous
Never
The
him
chance-sown
or
thoughts,
720
quickgay laugh,
man
is born.
and
have
deep
PARACELSUS
138
yet
is not
man
secret
yet When
completed
the
Swims
peerless
cup afloat
nymph
urn, some
is an
lake-lily
bearinghigh above
her head
bird
no
Whistles
That
A
which
Like
Of
trunks
shapepeeps
730
breezyforest-top,
puckeredmouth and mocking
from
small
with
Arch
but
unseen,
the
eye.
deep quietdroops
enterprise,
With evening,
triumphtakes the sunset hour,
Voluptuoustransportripenswith the corn
like a happy face :
Beneath a warm
moon
this to fillus with regardfor man.
And
of his passing
With
worth.
apprehension
The
has
morn
"
his proper
ascertain his rank and
Desire
And
to
For
these
The
law
work
nature
out,
740
final place,
stillupward,progress is
thingstend
of life,
man
is
Man
not
as
yet.
objectserved,his end
forth,
Attained, his genuinestrength
put fairly
While
only here and there a star dispels
Nor
shall I deem
his
The
out
When
at
to
once
toweringmind
when
of night.
despair
alike is perfected,
the
all mankind
then, not
Equal in full-blown powers
I say, beginsman's general
infancy.
"
For
Of
wherefore
make
restlessmembers
Slumbers
as
in
account
of
which
nerves
Impatient
a
the host
grave
tillthen,
of feverish
dormant
750
starts
whole,
PARACELSUS
The
brow
The
With
twitched,the tremulous lids astir,
was
disturbed
mouth
peaceful
speech
Ruffled the lip,and
The
breath
139
geglns
then
the teeth
set,
were
760
stronger,
it would
He
shall start
up and stand
shall his
Then
Thence
shall
on
his
earth,
own
longtriumphantmarch begin,
his
being date, thus wholly
"
roused,
he achieves shall be
What
When
As
all the
And,
is
race
set
down
to
him.
alike
perfected
man,
man
But in
completedman beginsanew
told
A tendencyto God.
Prognostics
Man's near
approach; so in man's self arise
symbols,types
August anticipations,
before
Of a dim splendour
ever
on
In that eternal circle life pursues.
For men
beginto pass their nature's bound,
And
find
new
hopes
supplant
Their
proper joys and
and
cares
narrow
fast
which
griefs
; they grow
too
780
great
For
creeds
of right and
wrong,
which
fade
Before
the unmeasured
peace
Rises within them
new
to God
As
corn-
tendency
sharp,the strong right-hand
drawn
clenched
half-uttered his
ever
thirst for
more
and
good :
more.
while
PARACELSUS
I40
He
describes
Such
amid
Serene
^^^
task"and
how
was
marred
even
be saved
should
round
creatures
with
joined
and
them
by
earth,
the
now
upon
the half-formed
are
men
them.
it
Such
my task,and
I said but now,
was
Free,
as
born
was
from
it
to
"
that chains
much
the
fashioned
never
was
first,
out
With
fancied
good
service
to
be ministered
gloryto
put forth
powers
cheated thus
never
be
790
done,
unto
man's
at
drawn
with-
expense,
800
From
Denied
Lest his
Elsewhere
And
for God
man's
to
is
Power
I could
not
thus
endowed,
only, I thought,should
That
limb.
I soul and
gloryvowed
gazed on
success
in man.
glorified
to
counter
ran
success
preserved,
be
increased
At
The
I
struck
risk,displayed,
any
signand
The
and character
at
of
once
"
man.
saw
Of
note
out
no
use
record of
best forgotten,
disgraces
810
PARACELSUS
chronicles
Should
Or
why
cause
once
Upon
the
the tide of
at'the^^
now,
about
lij^ht,
to
to
tell
qq^^
break
Love
world, was
had
have
insistence
man
That
I would
by his
stand all-sufficienteven
not
why
141
Change man's
one
claim
Of
At
Oblivion
What
man
so, dear
child
wilt thou reject
the past
after-days,
Big with deep warningsof the proper tenure
By which thou hast the earth : for thee
Of
829
present
distinct and
Shall have
Beside that
seen
trembling
beauty,
shade
own
past's
when,
in
relief.
thcc
Its
Of
the
several wonder
and
Flyingsecure
on
open
spirit
some
glad from
heaven
to
heaven
attain to joy,
painfully
hope and fear and love shall keep thee
While
man
All this
My
was
dreams
hid from
grew
me
dim,
my
as
by one
one
wide
aims
circum-
scriljed.
As
actual
good
within my
reach
decreased, 840
While
To
Small
as
it proved;
as
mean
objects,
within
of
PARACELSUS
142
How
least,
the
primalaggregate,seemed, even
he The
learned
the worth
Itself a match
In this
"
as
conjuncture,
prayedto die,
sin
know, one
strange adventure made me
from its uprise
Had
;
spotted
my career
Aprile
saw
Aprilethere
my
"
850
And
as
His
I learned my
Taught
love's
undoing
of love in man's
the worth
me
love
proportion
what
And
deep error
own
should
estate.
hold
with
power
rightconstitution;
In his
Power,
love
more
And
much
for
earnest
And
My
And
to
power
new
set
love free.
supposedthe
preceding
alwaysmuch
power,
stilltoo
Love
with
and
love
whole
860
was
thus,when
men
wonder
stupid
worshippedme.
their proffered
received with
would have
firstrevealings,
I despisedand loathed
praise
"
eyes,
"
all the
and
To
overbalance
Of
in vain,but born
faculties,
displayed
To
prosper in
In my
own
some
wear
better
waste
sphere:
not
and
why
been made
870
?
wise
PARACELSUS
To
trace
To
know
i43
in mankind,
love's faint beginnings
hate is but
even
in
mask
evil,and
of
but
love
love's,
hope
be proud
In ill-success ; to sympathise,
dim
faint aspirings,
Of their half-reasons,
for truth,their poorest fallacies,
Struggles
To
see
good
and
prejudice
Their
All with
touch
fears and
of nobleness,despite
880
error,
Like
he may
do their best to climb and get to him.
And
Let men
All this I knew
not, and I failed.
But dream
be,
long ago
third
loved too rashly
; and shape forth a
warned by both :
spirit,
better-tempered
Regard me,
Who
And
As
from
To
the over-radiant
drink
star
too
mad
beamless
life-springs,
the
thence
itself
890
"
orb which
the dark
And
borders the
Meanwhile, I
As
Their
yet
men
have done
do
cannot
abyss,
its course
Into
dark
Will
sea
of cloud,
I press God's
lamj)
or
soon
to
my breast ; its si)lendour,
piercethe gloom : I shall emerge
It is but for
Close
tremendous
a
time
900
late,
day.
You
understand
me
I have
said
enough ?
itself,
failed
and doubts
cares
not
one
PARACELSUS
144
He
in
dies
Now
Festus.
hope
Paracelsus.
This
hand,
Aprile
Festus.
Aureole
dear
die,
let
Festus,
lie in
Hand
And
own,
your
in
this
hand
was
THE
my
with
own
you,
Paracelsus
END
my
true
hand
"
friend
Aprile
NOTE
liberties I have
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the reader
trifling
; and
the
between
of
but
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for my
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the
them
with
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Biographic
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and
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view
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incorporated
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concise
sufficiently
and
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Paracelsus
notice
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this,1 sub-
prove
select,not
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parts which
those
correct
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purpose.
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K
his
portraitby
ii barbatului,
K'X'd reason
credo, vix
AVnw.)
for his
onim
ea
PARACELSUS
146
much
neglected,and
pursuingthe
that
age ;
life common
is to
the
to
in
say,
predictingthe
literatiof
travelling
wandering
from
in
youth
the
country
to
future
mancy,
by astrologyand cheiroand
the different
evoking apparitions,
practising
operationsof magic and alchemy,in which he had been
country,
initiated whether
the number
among
Tritheim
'As
Paracelsus
France, and
to
have
no
proofof
with
he
himself
and
not
of
is
those
direction
he
tented
con-
Germany,
boastinghimself
is
title of
Doctor,
that he applied
the wealthy Sigis-
of
the
to
of
there
institutions,
only known
Schwatz,
discoveryof
the
Opus.
Paracelsus
travelled
the
and
East,
be
to
mountain
visited
in
Sweden,
adepts,and
have
to
in
the mountains
among
miners,to
the famous
order
the
of loadstone
Bohemia,
inspectthe
to
initiated in the
observe
of
mysteriesof
secrets
(3).
He
of nature
professes
Spain,Portugal, Prussia,Poland,
and
Khan
purpose
of
gistusfrom
*The
the
Greek
periodof
who
he
that
Tartars
obtainingthe
a
his
extended
Tartary,and
of
these
conjurersof
believed that he
Egypt
the
of
the
charlatans
even
the schools
his
spiteof
ornament
long, under
the Oriental
also
in
seriously
in
and
It
labours of the
and
bishops.
the Universities
visiting
assumes.
Magnum
ecclesiastics,
the Abbot
particularises
the
having legallyacquired
Fugger
mond
in
the
his
various
ignoranceof the
ordinaryknowledge, it is not probable
studied
Italy;
been
he
by
displays
everywhere an
ever
himself
or
German
many
of the most
that he
which
his father
of whom
(2),and
rudiments
'
by
to
secret
several
as
journeyings
accompanied the
to
It is
far
as
of
son
for
Constantinople,
the
inhabited that
his return
lands.
Germany
capital.
is unknown
it
NOTE
called
padius(4),to
fill
Universityof
Basil.
the
in
publicly
than
the
hairs of
head ; and
physicand
OBcolamthe
at
surgery
of Avicenna
and
physicians
; that all
less gifted
put together,were
two
the
of
and
word, he
was
his beard
that,in
he
began by burning
works
than those
writers
all
Universities,
eminent
on
of
Paracelsus
auditors
instructed
more
wrought
recommendation
There
thirty-three,
that
celebrity,
amphitheatrethe
Galen, assuringhis
were
such
chair of
he
which
procured him
1526, on the
of
the age
about
is
personages
147
regarded as the
be
to
was
his
of
crown
"
shall follow me,"
monarch
You
of medicine,
legitimate
cried he, "you, Avicenna, Galen, Rhasis, Montagnana,
Mesues
Germany,
; you, gentlemen of Paris,Muntpcllic-r,
Cologne, Vienna,'and
Danube
thou, Greek
*But
was
no
he
and
vosct
mlHht).
; but
me
vcstros
mc
calvus
Avicenna
driven
fairly
adversary
away
'I.uther
at
arc
satis supcrquo
ac
dcpilismulto
vel universic
ct
wonderful
non
neither,
somewhere,'"
that
(jucndami
(;ivcone
alter.'
least
'And
match
for you."
Nam
ct
contra
(Inlenum, Aristolclem,
princi|)CsAviccnnam,
munilum
plura
esse
et
acadcmix.
"iitis,
quid roboris habcatis?
pcdiculospcctcntcs
so
heard
pillaKing'Anglum
his
I must
'I.uthcr
universes
'had
quod
pastim.
wc
of
came
styling him
been
him
etc.
his works
well
had
system
Hacchoncm.'
Rot^criuin
had
his lectures
another
what
all Paracelsus'
Sec
the
ami
me,
Arab
thou,
sea
was
Indosct
Garamantos,
'
Athenians
here
relates thi"i,
Eraslu"i,who
believe
isles of the
of comprehendingtheir emphatic
incapable
audience
if wc
the
the
and
Basil it
elapsedbefore
year
'
ct
thou, Jew
at
Professor
an
inhabit
Rhine
shall be minc."-
monarchy
who
nourish ; you
likewise,Dalmatians,
you,
the
whomsoever
quid
novi.
sublimiora
Kt
novit
iste
vertex
vestcr
qu.im
mcus
vcl
sitis?
iJoctoros
ot
mai;istri,
PARACELSUS
148
above
jargon. That
which
was
reputation
the debauched
all contributed
life he
According
led.
the
in
when
drenching himself
previously
retire
to
and, nevertheless,
up
drink had
been
to
lecture-
his
taries
secre-
if summoned
He
wine.
to
without
was
tomed
accus-
clothes ;
changing his
with peasants,
night in pot-houses
morning knew
in the
and
with
without
bed
to
he spent the
sometimes
the
no
the
to
he
longer what
of
age
about ;
was
his only
twenty-five
(5).
water
serious
'At
of the
the end
year
he caused
whither
to
his
in
years
sick,he
the
attend
intoxication
of
state
sully his
to
1527,
refuge in Alsatia,
took
and
his chemical
with
follow
Oporinusto
towards
apparatus.
'
then
He
entered
once
more
the
upon
of
career
find him
at
Accordingly we
ambulatory theosophist.^
in 1528 ; at Nuremberg in 1529 ; at St. Gall in
Colmar
in 1536 :
1531 ; at Pfeffers in 1535 5 and at Augsburg
he
made
next
stay in
some
by
compromisedhis reputation
further
himself
in
1538
Chronicle
the
Vienna
to
was
the
to
; from
at
kindnesses
many
the
thence he
he
which
with
they
'So
medical
library
was
inventory drawn
he
left
the
were
St. Jerome
on
manuscripts.'
the
up
not
composed
loss of
to
still
many
betake
;
his
dedicated
Carinthia,in gratitudefor
of
he
passedinto Hungary
Villach, where
States
where
compelled him
which
distinguishedpatients,
and
Moravia,
of
six
states
Gospels, a printedvolume
that the
on
honoured
us
sheets
Testament,
had
the
in cflect, the
only books
which
Commentaries
Medicine, and
ol
seven
NOTE
his father.
in the
would
to
seem
Einsiedeln
be
his
on
writings,
fantastic version of
Latinised
Eremus,
in the
called,as
Eremita
Erasmus,
is the
is sometimes
Paracelsus
of
spondence
corre-
name,
has
criticism
omit.)
Hohenhe'tm ;
whence
he tiled
is meant),Sept.
Stephen{Sebaitian
follows
"
(i)Paracelsus
Von
St.
541.* (Here
which
he visite"l
where
to Salzburg,
proceeiled
Hospitalof
24,
Mindelheim, which
Finally,from
in 1540, Paracelsus
149
since retained.
ever
(2) Then
burg
in
at
Bishop of Spanheim,an"l rcsiiling
Franconia
country, whence
situated
town
its name,
by learned men, as
Hag. 1536 :
EpistolaFamiliiiresy
friend
thence,in 1 5 10,
to
prefixed
epistle
last contains
the
letter
grassy
be
may
among
in
to
answer
the treatise De
Occult.
by
his
others,by
his
seen
he
the
dates
dedicatory
which
Philosop/i.y
allusion
following ominous
fertile
much
was
whom
Agrippa, to
Cornelius
Herbipolis.He
visited there
staunch
in
Wurz-
to
Agrippa's
adhuc
quz
atquc artibus
in occulto
etc.
contulisscmus,'
una
ilia
(3) Inexplcbilis
'
sccrcta
ct
rcconditarum
uno
locuptetandi,
sed
paticbatur,
urbcs
natiira;
arcanis scicntiis
dclitescunt,
avi"litas
animum
scicntiarum
supellcctilc
eo"lemquc
Mcrcurii
pcrscrutandi
naturar
loco
omncs
instar,
diu
non
pcrsistcrc
terras, nationes
ut
igniculossupponcbat,
perlustrandi
ore
icrutatoribus,
chymicis praeicrtim,
et
cum
viris
tcnui
con-
PARACELSUS
I50
invenerant
obtineret.'
communicatione
altera
vel
una
vigiliis
nocturnisque
laboribus
divine,tantum
ardua,
tarn
philosophia,
'
Medic.)
qui
Paracelsus
intima
in
eruisse
abdita
et
arcana
{Melch.Adam,
neminem.'
mortaliuni
testati sint,
in universa
multi
tarn
fere
ac
Vit.
in
Germ.
viscera sic
naturae
metallorum
stirpiumquevires et faculpenitusintroierit,
ac
incredibili ingeniiacumine
tarn
exploraverit
tates
morbos
ad
perviderit,
desperateset opinione
vel
omnes
Rami
Theophrasto
percurandum ; ut cum
{Petri
perfectaquevideatur.'
prinium medicina
Oral, de Basika.) His
passionfor wandering is
best
described
insanabiles
heminum
nata
artium
nebilissimarum
tasdii pigebit
?'
etc.
1573.
Def.
Ecce
amatorem
ut
piget,
venustam
minus
:
aspiciat
quanto
fceminam
vel
pucUam
suos.
'
words
own
adolesccntcm
saltern
his
in
laboris
amore
cujuslibct
ac
Septemad-versus amtdos
[Dcfensiones
et
De
peregrinatienibus
4ta.
'
exilie.')
(4) The
reader
that it
remember
may
tion
conjunc-
in
was
CEcolampadius,then DivinityProfessor
to
answer
that Zuinglius publishedin 1528 an
Confession of Faith ; and that both proceededin
at
with
to
subsequentconference
the
thon
at
Marpurg.
Their
with
letters fill
D.D.
et
Johannis(Ecolampadii
larum
lib. quattior.Bas.
that
Zuingliusbegan
1519,
and
that
in
to
Luther
5 36.
Huldrichi
It must
Mass
was
company
volume.
"
ZuingliiEpistobe
preachin 1516,and
115215 the
Luther's
Melanch-
and
large
Basil,
also
at
observed
Zurich
abolished
in
in the
NOTE
The
cantons.
be
the
by
them
that
maintained
perioii
our
brave
those up
the
beyond
been
school
Church,
he
impossible
always
have
could
which
1
five books
(orelse
master
it
reputedthe better
been
upon,
and
with
taken
out
of the
river that
in the
of
year
governed the
Lonl
our
of Rochester
sec
is
doubt
no
of
the
Protestantism
of
Paracelsus,
1666)
Letieraii,Ven.
by
excommunicated
Doct.)affirms
'ncc
informs
tantum
novae
est.'
his books
were
Church,
the
thcologia autor
that
us
celsus
Para-
d'lluomini
{Elogj
L. Crasso
scandalous.
always
was
novse
gone
twenty
there
his
had
master
presence ;
written
were
time he had
which
526, at
like
CEcolampadius,
his
as
this
with
run
"
one
Bishop
'About
heresy:
beyond
went
and
giant ; who,
fierce
and
to
the fouler
as
of Luther's
out
arose
mighty
had
supposed to
gloriousGerman,
Fisher attacked
CEcolampadiuswere
than
evangelical
more
time
of
tenets
151
ctiam
mcdicinae,verum
among
Magkir, classes him
tamcn
partim hsereticos' (lib.i. cap. 3). 'Oninino
multa
thcologicain cjusricmscriptis
plane alheismum
olcnt,
ac
iluriiisculc sonant
in auribus
Christiani.'
vera
minus
quam
in ordincm
in
nunc
Galcnum
ct
minabatur, ncquc
scripturam sacram
reccntiorcs,
quenquam
seel circa corticem
ct
Hippocratcm
cnim
corum
qui hactcnus
sivc
scripsisst-nt,
scripturxnuclcum
quasimcmbranam
redacturum
vctcrei,
rcctc
lantum
dr Mtd. Na-ttt.)
These
{Th.Erattiii,
Diifiiitai.
sivo
cruissc,
hxrcrc."
and
Bimihir
'
PARACELSUS
152
effect
notions
on
says Zuin-
Oporinus,who,
(Paracelso),
ncobpraeceptoris,alioquiamicissimi,horrendasbla
ipsequoque aliquandopoenas Deo Opt. Max. lueret.'
T/ieatrum,' longum
in his
gerus,
sample
the
allow
defenders
(5) His
excuses
ad
nostrum
Take
drunkenness.
Gentis
'
of their
dixit ei
vale
viri vitioluni
hoc, non
filo
interrupto
non
usque
et
coaevum,
nescio
vinculo
junctum.' [Bitisk'ius)
aliquoconsanguinitatis
The other charges were
chieflytrumped up by Oporinus :
ejus sjepe narravit,
Domi, quod Oporinus amanuensis
an
'
conclavi
medio
TeTi'0W;U^i'OSadsistens,
columnam
ad
in
accessit,
atque
explicandasua
nisi potus ad
nunquam
"
quod
in
capulo habuit,
fuisse prsestantisappellatum,me"licinam
aut
lapidem Philosophicum putant.' {Melc/i.
sword
no
famous
was
laughing-matterin
This
ipsoAzoth
simam
Adam)
it is
days,and
those
idea of
in
alii illud
:
protulit
sua
I recollect
Paracelsus.
at the
literature,
own
our
material
now
had
Ne
known
been
with
Paracelsus
Or
feature
in the
coupleof
allusions
kept
pummel
Shut
in the
That
taught
Of
past and
him
the
Danish
Gonswart,
Azoth
he
time
tincture
metals,
these
"
was
the
was
power
Oporinus
as
effects,
of
often
did also
i.
of his sword,
pranks
mountebanks.
simply ^laudanum
commonly
ii. scene
devil's bird
Hudibras,
This
it
future
to
moment.
Volpone,act
Bumbastus
popular
believed
curing
to
part
ii. cant.
suum.'
But
possess
the
diseases
witnessed,as
Franciscus,the
and
he
3.
in his
double
transmuting
declares,both
servant
of
Para-
NOTE
celsus,who
in
describes,
at
projection
which
letter to
he
153
the
among
other
quality,let
others
many
bergaeprocitusa
confided
the
"
medentibus
infamise
adit, et
illius
Republica ilia
in
summae
faciles
asserendae,
Theophrastus a
que
honiinum
valetudinarium
virtute
singular!rcmediorum
remarked
that
famcs
famae
conversi
cxanimi
defunctum
et
nimis
Oporinus,sec
D'upulat.
Erani, anri
Opor*;
and
pref. Testiimentif
for
the
his
convitiis
prosequutiis,inconscicntiae
remorsus
tarda, vulncra
spirantiinflixerant.'
Ob,
vivum
quern
in
morsus
praeceptoris
quae
de y'lt. el
repented of
vencratione
heu
poenitentia,
curationum
It is to
(^Bitiskius.y
afterwards
suorum
illustreharum
conservat
Oporinus
arbitrio
jussu
caeterorum
detrusos,alieno
foeda Graecorum
sanitati restituit ;
stipcndiovel
praebentium aures
a communione
elephantiacos
aliquot,
eliguntur,quos
vouch
subveniat,
famse
accepto pretio,horum
in
keeping.
urbis,et vaniloquus
segrcgatos, et
his
'Degebat TheophrastusNorim-
authoritatis
quosdam
to
of
results
following notice
deceptorqueproclamatus,qui,ut laboranti
viros
successful
the
present, and
was
Neamler,
these
For
Andrea:
*
'bites' of
Jochci Orat'to
Mic.
remorse
clauserc
Toxites in
Conringius (otherwisean
enemy
The
abundant
explanatory
votaries
'
:"
nonnulli
of
properly
Ubjccl ioncm
virtuic
which
ndMucc, from
of the
I select
Tincture
illam,quod
not
I'aracelsuH
the
followini;,n"
calculated
non
fucril
by its
lonKicvuii,
on
vintioncm
ac
to
rca^on^
calor
diasma.)
innatui
dum
^ummo
cjuosisuffocatur.'
efTicici
cl
pcnelrabilihujus
((iabrielitClaudcrl
Scho-
PARACELSUS
IS4
of
who
Paracelsus),
Oporinus to
says it
Doctor
Whatever
the moderns
of
think
may
of
Paracelsus
of these marvellous
be
to
Philoi"
lie scattered
his
that he had
the
Arezzo,
quotes
still more
Bayle
on
his work
I have
Even
Reriim,on
Natura
the
Lavater
definitions anci
acids,'though
logical
astro-
an
man
of
"
the
He
effect di"lpublish
a
vast
attinet,
audio,a Germanis
ingenii!' adds
however, spurious
;
good edition (3
vols.
Valentinus
number.
Paramyr.)declares 'quod ad
prope
fol. Gen.
The
numenis.'
rest
copiam
reccnseri.' *0
trecentos
he, appositely.Many
and
in
(inPnefat.
Paracelsi
librorum
of
these,
Bitiskius
gives his
1658)'rejectis
suppositis
Fred.
superbientibus
quorum
ipsiusnomine
fertur
Cesalpinoof
writings of Paracelsus,1
as
solo
Realdo
subjectof
the
was,
were,
and
vol.
translation,
explaina
fcECunditas
De
which
he
blood
prodigiousgenius.' See
iii. p. 179
'The
Eyes.'
may
in
appro-
as
observe.
Bartoli
from
passage
Andrea
perfectly
and
enthusiast,a
While
clever
practicalPhysiognomy, in
axioms
are
preciseenough :
Holcroft's
hints
many
discovered
and
as
hanc
aetate,quasi ab
I suppose
Paracelsus.'
of the heart
sanguification
Colombo,
'Nobilem
"
since
from
appears
Th.
in his
priatorshave
the
thus prefacesthe
sectis,
PMlos'""
et
ninth
orco
considered
chemistryis indisputable.Gerarihis
modern
Vossius,De
letter from
Vegerus.^
the title
attributes,
father
containeii in
was
were
ingens circum'
charissimum
et
For
"
NOTE
authoris
pretiosissimum
obtentum.'
quam
'Jam
haec
ipsius scripta
quae
muro
furto
surrepta
have
been
Arg.
mattica,
in
his
would
Paracelsus
of
and
indifference
his
profession
'Quij
quse
j"r
sua
he
quaeso
J')
"
dcinceps
in
is recorded
honoravit
pauperes
or
in
he
"
fee,
and
honorem
his
for
liberality
a
accounts
was
solution
ready
sword-handle
sin
besetting
says
"lcferat
obitur
epitaph,
of
interference
own
the
canon,
supported
was
whose
curiously
distribuenda
ordinavit
Sua-vio,
^laudanum'
aforesaid
the
from
(as
"
in
the
found
nebulonibus
facinorosis
tam
foes, who
abhorred
by
His
freedom
His
its guest.
1584;
Leone
auctore
authorities,
profit
to
Or.o-
Franc.
Liechtenfels,
One
brook.
bitterest
his
by
^Idea
Toxetis
Mic.
scholiis
stipulated
not
amongst
Severini
Pari
Parac,
extremis
the
by
meanness
alloweil
the
refused
Paracelsus,
These
book.)
in
rescued
been
having
indicio,
Valentinus.
Diet.
cum
quippe
commentators,
1571
affair.
disgraceful
of
Bas.
good
videntur
illo
jubente
atque
ciijusdam
says
notable,
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