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Faust and his assistant Wagner ventured from Faust’s study, a rare excursion for the melancholy scientist. Wagner does his best to keep Faust’s spirits up, and tries to help him understand that the city is thankful for Faust’s contributions to science--they believe that Faust and his father helped cure the town of the plague many years ago, but Faust argues that he actually poisoned people. Wagner is leading Faust home, but they see a strange black dog approaching them. Faust is unnerved by the
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Wagner: Let’s go on! The world has darkened,
The air is cool: the mists descend!
Man values his own house at night.
What is it occupies your sight?
What troubles you so, in the evening?
Faust: Through corn and stubble, see that black dog running?
Wagner: I saw him long ago: he seems a wretched thing.
Faust: Look at him closely! What
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A full-text translation of Faust, with notes: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/Fausthome.php
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