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『ファウスト』英文/和訳 Part 5 夜・ワーグナーと復活祭の鐘

地霊に拒まれたファウストは、自分の限界を思い知らされます。そこへ弟子ワーグナーが現れ、学問・弁論・歴史について語りますが、ファウストの孤独はさらに深まります。やがて彼は毒杯を手にしますが、復活祭の鐘と合唱が、少年時代の記憶を呼び戻します。

動作・変化 感情・心理 絶望・死 場面・描写 信仰・精神 重要表現
舞台指示

A knock.

FAUST

Oh death! I know it—’tis my famulus— My fairest fortune now escapes!

FAUST

That all these visionary shapes A soulless groveller should banish thus!

舞台指示

WAGNER in his dressing gown and night-cap, a lamp in his hand. FAUST turns round reluctantly.

WAGNER

Pardon! I heard you here declaim; A Grecian tragedy you doubtless read?

WAGNER

Improvement in this art is now my aim, For now-a-days it much avails.

WAGNER

Indeed an actor, oft I’ve heard it said, As teacher, may give instruction to a preacher.

FAUST

Ay, if your priest should be an actor too, As not improbably may come to pass.

* * *
WAGNER

When in his study pent the whole year through, Man views the world, as through an optic glass,

WAGNER

On a chance holiday, and scarcely then, How by persuasion can he govern men?

FAUST

If feeling prompt not, if it doth not flow Fresh from the spirit’s depths, with strong control,

FAUST

Swaying to rapture every listener’s soul, Idle your toil; the chase you may forego!

FAUST

Brood o’er your task! Together glue, Cook from another’s feast your own ragout.

FAUST

Still prosecute your paltry game, And fan your ash-heaps into flame!

FAUST

Thus children’s wonder you’ll excite, And apes’, if such your appetite;

FAUST

But that which issues from the heart alone, Will bend the hearts of others to your own.

WAGNER

The speaker in delivery will find Success alone; I still am far behind.

* * *
FAUST

A worthy object still pursue! Be not a hollow tinkling fool!

FAUST

Sound understanding, judgment true, Find utterance without art or rule;

FAUST

And when in earnest you are moved to speak, Then is it needful cunning words to seek?

FAUST

Your fine harangues, so polish’d in their kind, Wherein the shreds of human thought ye twist,

FAUST

Are unrefreshing as the empty wind, Whistling through wither’d leaves and autumn mist!

WAGNER

Oh God! How long is art, Our life how short!

WAGNER

With earnest zeal Still as I ply the critic’s task, I feel a strange oppression both of head and heart.

WAGNER

The very means how hardly are they won, By which we to the fountains rise!

WAGNER

And haply, ere one half the course is run, Check’d in his progress, the poor devil dies.

FAUST

Parchment, is that the sacred fount whence roll Waters, he thirsteth not who once hath quaffed?

FAUST

Oh, if it gush not from thine inmost soul, Thou hast not won the life-restoring draught.

* * *
WAGNER

Your pardon! ‘tis delightful to transport Oneself into the spirit of the past.

WAGNER

To see in times before us how a wise man thought, And what a glorious height we have achieved at last.

FAUST

Ay truly! even to the loftiest star! To us, my friend, the ages that are pass’d A book with seven seals, close-fasten’d, are;

FAUST

And what the spirit of the times men call, Is merely their own spirit after all, Wherein, distorted oft, the times are glass’d.

FAUST

Then truly, ‘tis a sight to grieve the soul! At the first glance we fly it in dismay;

FAUST

A very lumber-room, a rubbish-hole; At best a sort of mock-heroic play.

FAUST

With saws pragmatical, and maxims sage, To suit the puppets and their mimic stage.

WAGNER

But then the world and man, his heart and brain! Touching these things all men would something know.

FAUST

Ay! what ‘mong men as knowledge doth obtain! Who on the child its true name dares bestow?

FAUST

The few who somewhat of these things have known, Who their full hearts unguardedly reveal’d,

FAUST

Nor thoughts, nor feelings, from the mob conceal’d, Have died on crosses, or in flames been thrown.

FAUST

Excuse me, friend, far now the night is spent, For this time we must say adieu.

WAGNER

Still to watch on I had been well content, Thus to converse so learnedly with you.

WAGNER

But as to-morrow will be Easter-day, Some further questions grant, I pray;

WAGNER

With diligence to study still I fondly cling; Already I know much, but would know everything.

舞台指示

Exit.

* * *
FAUST

How him alone all hope abandons never, To empty trash who clings, with zeal untired.

FAUST

With greed for treasure gropes, and, joy-inspir’d, Exults if earth-worms second his endeavour.

FAUST

And dare a voice of merely human birth, E’en here, where shapes immortal throng’d, intrude?

FAUST

Yet ah! thou poorest of the sons of earth, For once, I e’en to thee feel gratitude.

FAUST

Despair the power of sense did well-nigh blast, And thou didst save me ere I sank dismay’d.

FAUST

So giant-like the vision seem’d, so vast, I felt myself shrink dwarf’d as I survey’d!

FAUST

I, God’s own image, from this toil of clay Already freed, with eager joy who hail’d The mirror of eternal truth unveil’d.

FAUST

Mid light effulgent and celestial day— I, more than cherub, whose unfetter’d soul With penetrative glance aspir’d to flow.

FAUST

Through nature’s veins, and, still creating, know The life of gods—how am I punish’d now!

FAUST

One thunder-word hath hurl’d me from the goal! Spirit! I dare not lift me to thy sphere.

FAUST

What though my power compell’d thee to appear, My art was powerless to detain thee here.

FAUST

In that great moment, rapture-fraught, I felt myself so small, so great.

FAUST

Fiercely didst thrust me from the realm of thought Back on humanity’s uncertain fate!

FAUST

Who’ll teach me now? What ought I to forego? Ought I that impulse to obey?

FAUST

Alas! our every deed, as well as every woe, Impedes the tenor of life’s onward way!

FAUST

E’en to the noblest by the soul conceiv’d, Some feelings cling of baser quality;

FAUST

And when the goods of this world are achiev’d, Each nobler aim is termed a cheat, a lie.

FAUST

Our aspirations, our soul’s genuine life, Grow torpid in the din of earthly strife.

FAUST

Though youthful phantasy, while hope inspires, Stretch o’er the infinite her wing sublime,

FAUST

A narrow compass limits her desires, When wreck’d our fortunes in the gulf of time.

* * *
FAUST

In the deep heart of man care builds her nest, O’er secret woes she broodeth there.

FAUST

Sleepless she rocks herself and scareth joy and rest; Still is she wont some new disguise to wear.

FAUST

She may as house and court, as wife and child appear, As dagger, poison, fire and flood;

FAUST

Imagined evils chill thy blood, And what thou ne’er shalt lose, o’er that dost shed the tear.

FAUST

I am not like the gods! Feel it I must; I’m like the earth-worm, writhing in the dust.

FAUST

Which, as on dust it feeds, its native fare, Crushed ‘neath the passer’s tread, lies buried there.

FAUST

Is it not dust, wherewith this lofty wall, With hundred shelves, confines me round;

FAUST

Rubbish, in thousand shapes, may I not call What in this moth-world doth my being bound?

FAUST

Here, what doth fail me, shall I find? Read in a thousand tomes that, everywhere, Self-torture is the lot of human-kind?

FAUST

With but one mortal happy, here and there? Thou hollow skull, that grin, what should it say?

FAUST

But that thy brain, like mine, of old perplexed, Still yearning for the truth, hath sought the light of day.

FAUST

And in the twilight wandered, sorely vexed? Ye instruments, forsooth, ye mock at me.

FAUST

With wheel, and cog, and ring, and cylinder; To nature’s portals ye should be the key.

FAUST

Cunning your wards, and yet the bolts ye fail to stir. Inscrutable in broadest light,

FAUST

To be unveil’d by force she doth refuse; What she reveals not to thy mental sight, Thou wilt not wrest from her with levers and with screws.

FAUST

Old useless furnitures, yet stand ye here, Because my sire ye served, now dead and gone.

FAUST

Old scroll, the smoke of years dost wear, So long as o’er this desk the sorry lamp hath shone.

FAUST

Better my little means had squandered quite away, Than burden’d by that little here to sweat and groan!

FAUST

Wouldst thou possess thy heritage, essay, By use to render it thine own!

FAUST

What we employ not, but impedes our way; That which the hour creates, that can it use alone!

* * *
FAUST

But wherefore to yon spot is riveted my gaze? Is yonder flasket there a magnet to my sight?

FAUST

Whence this mild radiance that around me plays, As when, ‘mid forest gloom, reigneth the moon’s soft light?

FAUST

Hail precious phial! Thee, with reverent awe, Down from thine old receptacle I draw!

FAUST

Science in thee I hail and human art. Essence of deadliest powers, refin’d and sure.

FAUST

Of soothing anodynes abstraction pure, Now in thy master’s need thy grace impart!

FAUST

I gaze on thee, my pain is lull’d to rest; I grasp thee, calm’d the tumult in my breast.

FAUST

The flood-tide of my spirit ebbs away; Onward I’m summon’d o’er a boundless main.

FAUST

Calm at my feet expands the glassy plain, To shores unknown allures a brighter day.

FAUST

Lo, where a car of fire, on airy pinion, Comes floating towards me! I’m prepar’d to fly.

FAUST

By a new track through ether’s wide dominion, To distant spheres of pure activity.

FAUST

This life intense, this godlike ecstasy— Worm that thou art, such rapture canst thou earn?

FAUST

Only resolve with courage stern and high, Thy visage from the radiant sun to turn!

FAUST

Dare with determin’d will to burst the portals Past which in terror others fain would steal.

FAUST

Now is the time, through deeds, to show that mortals The calm sublimity of gods can feel.

FAUST

To shudder not at yonder dark abyss, Where phantasy creates her own self-torturing brood.

FAUST

Right onward to the yawning gulf to press, Around whose narrow jaws rolleth hell’s fiery flood.

FAUST

With glad resolve to take the fatal leap, Though danger threaten thee, to sink in endless sleep!

* * *
FAUST

Pure crystal goblet! forth I draw thee now, From out thine antiquated case, where thou Forgotten hast reposed for many a year!

FAUST

Oft at my father’s revels thou didst shine, To glad the earnest guests was thine.

FAUST

As each to other passed the generous cheer. The gorgeous brede of figures, quaintly wrought,

FAUST

Which he who quaff’d must first in rhyme expound, Then drain the goblet at one draught profound,

FAUST

Hath nights of boyhood to fond memory brought. I to my neighbour shall not reach thee now,

FAUST

Nor on thy rich device shall I my cunning show. Here is a juice, makes drunk without delay;

FAUST

Its dark brown flood thy crystal round doth fill; Let this last draught, the product of my skill,

FAUST

My own free choice, be quaff’d with resolute will, A solemn festive greeting, to the coming day!

舞台指示

He places the goblet to his mouth. The ringing of bells, and choral voices.

* * *
CHORUS OF ANGELS

Christ is arisen! Mortal, all hail to thee, Thou whom mortality, Earth’s sad reality, Held as in prison.

FAUST

What hum melodious, what clear silvery chime Thus draws the goblet from my lips away?

FAUST

Ye deep-ton’d bells, do ye with voice sublime, Announce the solemn dawn of Easter-day?

FAUST

Sweet choir! are ye the hymn of comfort singing, Which once around the darkness of the grave,

FAUST

From seraph-voices, in glad triumph ringing, Of a new covenant assurance gave?

CHORUS OF WOMEN

We, his true-hearted, With spices and myrrh, Embalmed the departed, And swathed him with care;

CHORUS OF WOMEN

Here we conveyed Him, Our Master, so dear; Alas! Where we laid Him, The Christ is not here.

CHORUS OF ANGELS

Christ is arisen! Blessed the loving one, Who from earth’s trial throes, Healing and strengthening woes, Soars as from prison.

FAUST

Wherefore, ye tones celestial, sweet and strong, Come ye a dweller in the dust to seek?

FAUST

Ring out your chimes believing crowds among, The message well I hear, my faith alone is weak;

FAUST

From faith her darling, miracle, hath sprung. Aloft to yonder spheres I dare not soar,

FAUST

Whence sound the tidings of great joy; And yet, with this sweet strain familiar when a boy, Back it recalleth me to life once more.

FAUST

Then would celestial love, with holy kiss, Come o’er me in the Sabbath’s stilly hour.

FAUST

While, fraught with solemn meaning and mysterious, Chim’d the deep-sounding bell, and prayer was bliss;

FAUST

A yearning impulse, undefin’d yet dear, Drove me to wander on through wood and field;

FAUST

With heaving breast and many a burning tear, I felt with holy joy a world reveal’d.

FAUST

Gay sports and festive hours proclaim’d with joyous pealing, This Easter hymn in days of old;

FAUST

And fond remembrance now doth me, with childlike feeling, Back from the last, the solemn step, withhold.

FAUST

O still sound on, thou sweet celestial strain! The tear-drop flows,—Earth, I am thine again!

* * *
CHORUS OF DISCIPLES

He whom we mourned as dead, Living and glorious, From the dark grave hath fled, O’er death victorious;

CHORUS OF DISCIPLES

Almost creative bliss Waits on his growing powers; Ah! Him on earth we miss; Sorrow and grief are ours.

CHORUS OF DISCIPLES

Yearning he left his own, Mid sore annoy; Ah! we must needs bemoan. Master, thy joy!

CHORUS OF ANGELS

Christ is arisen, Redeem’d from decay.

CHORUS OF ANGELS

The bonds which imprison Your souls, rend away!

CHORUS OF ANGELS

Praising the Lord with zeal, By deeds that love reveal, Like brethren true and leal Sharing the daily meal,

CHORUS OF ANGELS

To all that sorrow feel Whisp’ring of heaven’s weal, Still is the Master near, Still is he here!

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