NP (?) goethe

[Spencer Thiel]

Awesome.  Maybe they will start doing this every day.

"I'm Dan Rather.  The top story of the day, an excerpt from Eliot's Prufrock."


At 4:12 PM -0500 8/27/99, you wrote:


>My girlfriend Marie forwarded this to me just now, and I thought it merited
>sharing:
>
>***
>
>This was floating in the AP news, with no context provided...just another
>news story?
>Quote-of -the-day?
>Or...a sign?
>
>August 27, 1999
>
>Excerpt From Goethe's Faust
>
>A.P. INDEXES: TOP STORIES | NEWS | SPORTS | BUSINESS | TECHNOLOGY|
>ENTERTAINMENT
>
>Filed at 4:28 p.m. EDT
>
>By The Associated Press
>
>An excerpt from Johann Wolfgang Goethe's most famous work, the dramatic
>poem ``Faust.''
>
>The excerpt, titled ``Faust contemplates the sunrise'' is taken from a
>Penguin Classics edition of Goethe-Selected Verse:
>
>``Life's pulses beat again, with living freshness,
>In clement salutation to the ethereal dawn;
>Earth, you have lasted out this night as well
>And new-revived lie breathing at my feet,
>Beginning to surround me with delight already,
>Stirring, stimulating me to strong resolve:
>Never to cease to strive towards supreme existence.
>In the half-light the world already lies revealed;
>Life sings in the forest with a thousand voices;
>Long clouds lie spilled in and out of the valleys,
>But heavenly brightness is penetrating deeper down,
>And branches and boughs, freshly revived, have risen into sight
>Out of the misty chasm where they slept submerged;
>And bright colors detach themselves one after another from the depths,
>Where flowers and leaves have been dripping with tremulous pearls:
>All round me, a paradise comes into being.''
>
>Good Friday, all!
>
>
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>
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