With stake, and rake, and torch uplift',
Hurry through the mountain rift!
Owls, and ev'ry wing of night,

And ev'ry sound of fear and fright,
Join the clamour aid the flight!

DRUID.

FATHER OF ALL, to Thee we pray,

By night in secret- insecure

But the darkness is like day,

If the heart within be pure;

What they do thou dost permit,
We endure and pardon it :-

As glows through smoke the bursting light,
Bid faith thus strengthen, day by day,

And then, though dimmed each ancient rite, Oh who can take thy light away?

A CHRISTIAN.

Help, oh help, the hill's enchanted,
With all hell the place is haunted!

Look! what features and what frames!
Through them shining—see! - the flames!
Swift and swifter, upward streaming,

Men half wolves, and dragon women!
What a scream! - what a shout

From the devilish rout!

And see where the devil spits fire from above,
And below his hell-spawn creatures move!
Away-away! — let us flee — let us flee,
This is no place for such as we!

CHORUS OF THE CHRISTIAN GUARD.
Hear them screaming- see them streaming-
Men half wolves, and dragon women,

And the devil spitting fire from above,
And the hell-spawn fry below that move,

Through smoke the conquering flame burns bright,
Bid Faith thus strengthen day by day,

And then - though dimmed each ancient rite,
Oh, who can take thy light away?

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But, ah! they cannot hear my closing song,
Those hearts, for whom my earliest lays were tried.

"Where are the smiles I longed to gain,

The pledge of labour not in vain ?”

MONTGOMERY WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD Address to the Spirit of a departed Friend.

"To understand the dedication," says Mr. Hayward, "it is necessary to refer to the history of the book. The plan of Faust appears to have been in Goethe's mind very early in life. He puts it down amongst the works written between 1769 and 1775, in the list appended to the Stuttgart and Tubingen octavo edition of 1829.

According to Dr. Sieglitz, the first part of Faust appeared, in its present shape, in the collected edition of Goethe's works, which was published in 1808." - HAYWARD'S Faust, p. 216.