One with tenacious organs holds in love
And clinging lust the world in its embraces;
The other strongly sweeps, this dust above,
Into the high ancestral spaces."
The mere magic-working Mephistopheles of Marlowe, again, takes on, in the modern poet, something of the terrifying grandeur of one of the essential forces of the universe. How subtle is Goethe's insight into him, and how one longs to get something of that subtlety in his music—
"Part of that Power, not always understood,
Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good."
"Part of the Part am I, once all, in primal Night—
Part of the Darkness which brought forth the Light,