Not me! [Vanishes.

Faust.

Not thee!

Whom, then?

I, image of the Godhead,

Dwarfed by thee! [Knocking is heard.]

O death!—’tis Wagner’s knock—I know it well,

My famulus; he comes to mar the spell!

Woe’s me that such bright vision of the spheres

Must vanish when this pedant-slave appears!