The flood is sundering us.
OLDHAM
Farewell, farewell,
Belovèd friend. I with the Holy One
Henceforth am linked; and grief shall follow me
In what should be your footsteps.
FAUST
Have no grief.
In the vast deeps of life's salt bitter sea
Perhaps awaits my anodyne, to heal
Life's wounds....
OLDHAM
Farewell! I go to paradise.
[Oldham and the Holy One move slowly away together,
pass through the colonnades, and disappear into the
forest. Faust follows with his eyes their retreating figures.
SATAN
You do not know a paradise when you see it!
Some day, when I have time, I'll start a school
To give instruction to great minds like you—
Débutant!
FAUST