Faust. O that I never had been born!
Meph. (appears at the door). Come! or you are lost!... Foolish, useless hesitation—delaying and gossiping! My horses are shuddering and the morning twilight breaks.
Gretchen (seeing Mephistopheles). What is this that rises from the ground? He! He! Send him away! What does he want at this holy spot?
Meph. (to Faust). Come! come! or I shall leave you in the lurch.
Gretchen. I am thine, Father—save me! Ye angels, holy cohorts, encamp around me and defend me! (To Faust.) Heinrich, I shrink from thee in horror.
Meph. She is judged.
Voice from Above. She is saved.
Meph. to Faust. Here! to me!
[Disappears with Faust.
[A Voice from Within—the voice of Gretchen—calls on the name of him she once loved—of him who has robbed her of happiness and life itself. Fainter and fainter it calls, then dies away into silence.