VANISH, dark clouds on high, <br /> <br />Offspring of night! <br />Let a more radiant beam <br />Through the blue ether gleam, <br /> <br />Charming the sight! <br />Would the dark clouds on high <br /> <br />Melt into air! <br />Stars glimmer tenderly, <br /> <br />Planets more fair <br /> <br />Shed their soft light. <br />Spirits of heav'nly birth, <br />Fairer than sons of earth, <br />Quivering emotions true <br /> <br />Hover above; <br />Yearning affections, too, <br /> <br />In their train move. <br />See how the spirit-band, <br />By the soft breezes fann'd, <br />Covers the smiling land,-- <br />Covers the leafy grove, <br />Where happy lovers rove, <br />Deep in a dream of love, <br />True love that never dies! <br />Bowers on bowers rise, <br /> <br />Soft tendrils twine; <br />While from the press escapes, <br />Born of the juicy grapes, <br /> <br />Foaming, the wine; <br />And as the current flows <br />O'er the bright stones it goes,-- <br />Leaving the hilly lands <br /> <br />Far, far behind,-- <br />Into a sea expands, <br /> <br />Loving to wind <br />Round the green mountain's base; <br />And the glad-winged race, <br /> <br />Rapture sip in, <br />As they the sunny light, <br />And the fair islands bright, <br /> <br />Hasten to win, <br />That on the billows play <br />With sweet deceptive ray, <br />Where in glad choral song <br />Shout the exulting throng; <br />Where on the verdant plain <br /> <br />Dancers we see, <br />Spreading themselves amain <br /> <br />Over the lea. <br />Some boldly climbing are <br /> <br />O'er the steep brake, <br />Others are floating far <br /> <br />O'er the smooth lake. <br />All for a purpose move, <br /> <br />All with life teem, <br />While the sweet stars above <br /> <br />Blissfully gleam.<br /><br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-faust-iv-chorus-of-spirits/
