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(After the fashion of the middle ages; cumbrous, useless apparatus, for fantastic purposes)

WAGNER (at the furnace)

Soundeth the bell, the fearful clang

Thrills through these sooty walls; no more

Upon fulfilment waits the pang

Of hope or fear;—suspense is o'er;

The darknesses begin to clear,

Within the inmost phial glows

Radiance, like living coal, that throws,

As from a splendid carbuncle, its rays;

Athwart the gloom its lightning plays.

A pure white lustre doth appear;

O may I never lose it more!—

My God! what rattles at the door?

MEPHISTOPHELES (entering)

Welcome! As friend I enter here.