Faust, Cg 4: Heavenly Vision (Remastered 2023)

Heddle Nash as Faust; Robert Easton as Méphistophélès

Faust sees a vision of Marguérite sitting at her spinning wheel…

Faust: Heavenly vision!

Méphistophélès: She shall love thee! Shall she love thee?

Faust: Give me her! (eagerly reaching for the parchment to sign)

Méphistophélès: It is done!

Faust signs the pact. Méphistophélès picks up a goblet from the table

Méphistophélès: For the rest of the chapter, ’tis I who wait upon you,

To drain from your goblet the nectar of the sun.

No more of death – poison no more,

But life and freedom!

Faust: (taking the goblet and addressing the vision of Marguérite)

I am thine! I am thine! I am thine!

Angel from heav’n come down!

Faust drinks and is transformed into a young man

Méphistophélès: Come!

Faust: (the image of Marguérite has faded)

Shall I see her again?

Méphistophélès: It seems so!

Together: Away then! Away then! Away!

Be mine!

The delight of beauty’s caresses, her soft wavy tresses,

Her smile beaming bright; be mine (thine),

the warm current of blood in every vein,

The passion in torrent, which nothing can rein.

The rapture, where pleasure to time giveth flight!

O Youth, without measure! Be mine (thine), thy delight! (etc)

Jules Barbier and Michel Carré;

English translation by H. F. Chorley