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Quotation from Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When thus I hail the Moment flying: “Ah, still delay—thou art so fair!” Then bind me in thy bonds undying, My final ruin then declare!”
Faust, Part One, Scene IV, The Study (German ll. 1699-1702), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870)
The terms of the wager: Faust forfeits himself only if he ever asks a moment to stay.
Citation: "When thus I hail the Moment flying: “Ah, still delay—thou art so fair!” Then bind me in thy bonds undying, My final ruin then declare!" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One, Scene IV, The Study (German ll. 1699-1702), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870). (id goethe-faust-part-one-q6)
Portrait: Goethe (Stieler 1828), Joseph Karl Stieler, Public domain.
