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I see you, and the agony decreases. I grasp you, and the string half-releases. A celestial salve, upon this spiral staircase whose weary ascent seems boundless, but for your generous glimpses of what might be, in your foot trails. |
Copyright ©2009 Ashi Shadow -2007.
Based on Faust I (Goethe) lines 696-697.
Also scribbled near the poem: Page 27, the bottom, 2 spirits, p 37-38.
(presumably inspiration for the later part of the poem).
Was [glimpse actually means 'letting glimpse' or 'showing glimpses of'] Version is the blue/black cover with a white square, Norton Critical editions.
ISBN 10: 0393092089 ISBN 13: 9780393092080