New-York tribune., 1871-06-02

or oxhaust the suggestiveness of the drama. After
oil tho curious speouatons of critics, they still leave
frosb discoveries to the sympathetic reader. There
ara circles within circles; we never sure that
wo have touched bottom. but always suspect that
there il a deep beyond the lowest depth which we
have been able to sound with our plummets. We
have to deduce many of the references from the
allegory; we obtain others through our knowledge
of the personal and poetic development of Goethe;
while others still present clue whatever to their
existence The early disparagement of the Second
Part OF Faust is beginning TO give way. There is
more intelligent recognition of its grand design,
its wealth of illustration, and the variety
and beauty of its rhythmica forms Within the
last twenty five years. much that was obscure is now
revealed in clear perspective. The poem exhibits
the Titanic struggle of man, surrounded with shapes
of beauty and darkness towards victorious immor-
talty Mr. Taylor admits that the completion of the
work was delayed too long. With moro limited
stores of knowledge the part of Goethe it would
have had greater poetic unity. The poetry of his
nature had 10 break through thick crust of erudi-
tion, before it could clearly flame out. The grand
secret of the drama the regeneration OF Faust In
the mysterious Mothers, the aesthetic element, or
the sense of the Beautiful in the human mind is in
tr0duced rs a of culture, refining
and purifying Fausts nature, and raising
it above the meanness and httlenesS
of the world This aesthetic publication goes on un-
til Faust enlightened and elevated above his former
SELF becomes anxious for grand and worthy sphere
of external activity. He aims to bend Nature to the
service of Man, conquering the force of the unruly
elements by redeemng reach of land from the do
main of the ocean. He accOmplishes this enterprise
with success and as reward for his services in sub
DUNG a rebellion against the Emperor, receives
territory the seashore. Now hundred years old,
he lives in palace this spot. Aged, iDfrm, and
blind the inner light shines more clearly on his SOUL
Conscious of his benecent activity in creating free
and happy homes for portion of the race, he finally
Yields to the constitution of Nature, and sinks dead
upon the earth. The drama closes with struggle
between Mephistophees and the angels for the pos
session of Fausts soul, and scene in Heaven when
Margaret appears as the guide of her redeemed lover
In the denouement Faust comes off victorious. The
epilogue illustrates in wOndrous alegorica images
the final triumph of Good and the OmnipOtence OF
Divine Love.
AS an example of Mr. TaylOr's most brilliant man.
ner we present Fausts description of Sunrise In the
First Act.
LIES pulses now with freshcr force awaken
To greet the mild ethereal twilight DER me-
This night, thou Earthi has also stood unshakcn,
And now thou breathest newrelreshcd before before me-
And now be eg1nest, all thy gladness granting,
4 vigorous resolution to restore me, non,,nc
The world unfolded lies in twilight glinmer
A thousand voices in the grove are chanting;
Vale in, vale out, the misty streaks grow DINNER;
Tho deeps with heavenly light are penetrated;
The boughs refreshed lift up their leafy simmer
From From Gulfs of air where seePl%iy % they 1t Natgdi
Where flower and leaf with trembling pearls are
And ali around a Paradise appeareth.
Look up! The mountain SUBMITS, grand supernal
Herald, cen now, the solemn hour that neareth
They earliest ENJOY the hight eternal
That later sinks, till here below We find 1t.
Now to the Alpine meadows, sloping vcrnal,
newer beam deSccnds ere we OWNED 1t,
Ana step 10y step unto the base hath bounded;
The sun comes forth Alas, already blinded.
turn away, with eyesght pierced ana wounded!
It is thus, when, unto yearnng hopes endeavor,
its highest wish on sweet attainment grounded
The portals of mlflment widely sever;
But if there burst from those eternal spaces
For Life's pure torch we sought the shining traces
And seas OF 1lre-and what fire !-surprise us.
Is Z LOVei Is I Hate that burningy embraces,
And that with pain and Joy alternate tres usT
SO that glauces once more earthwaTd throwing
We seek in youthful drapery to disguise Us.
Behind me therefore let the sun be glowing,
Tie cataract, between the crags deep-riven,
thus behold with rapture ever-growing. 49,
From plunge 10 plunge IN thousand streams It's gwen,
And yet thousand, TO the valleys shaded
While foam ana spray in air whirlcd and driven.
Yet how superb, across the tumult braided,
The painted TaDbOw's changeful life is bending,
And eyermore the showers of dew descending!
OF human striving there's no symbol fuller;
Life is not light. but the refacted color
The vision of Faust with which the Fourth Act
opens, is rendered with similar felicity.
Downgazlng OH the deepest solitudes below,
tread deliberately this SUBMITS lonely edge
Ne softly through the shining day DER land and sea-
Uuscattered, slowly moved, it separates from me
on eastward strives the mass with rounded, rolling
march:
And strives the eye amazed, admring, after it,.
IN motion ii divides, in wayelike, changcful gllse;
Yet seems to shape fgure.-ies! mine eyes not
On sun,iumined pillows heauteousy reclined,
Colossal, truly but a godltke w3m9nIorm'
see! The like Of Juno, Leda, Helena,
Majestically lovely, floats before my sight
All now tis brokenl Towering broad and fOrmlcssly,
IL rests along the east like distant ley hills,
And shapes the grand significance Of leeting days,
Yet still there cings light and delicate band Of mist
Around my breast and brow, caTessng, cheering me-
Now light deiayngIy it scars and higher scars,
And folds together.-Chcats me an ecstatic form,
The first glad OF my deepest heart break forth
Auroras love- so g9t Of pon, rs Its type, ,nco
OutshiDing every treasure when retained and held.
DissoiTing not, but lifts itself through ether far,
And from my inner being bears the best away.
The angelic choruses in the last act, with their Pc
culiar versfcation and imagery, present obstacles
in the way of perfect translation which no one
certainly before Mr.. Taylor had been able to over
come. How well he has succeeded in conquering al
most invincbe difficulties. will appear from the Sc
lection which we give below.
Roses. We glowing ones
Baisdn- DestOwlng ones!
Fluttering. quiyerng,
Sweetness delivering,
Branching unblightedly,
Budding deghtedly,
Bloom and be scCnl
Sprngtime declare him,
In purple and green
Paradise bear him,
The Sleeper Serene!
Blossoms OF gratitude,
Flames of beattude
Love they bearing now,
Rapture preparing now,
As the heart may
Truth in its neaTness,