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Quotation from Faust, Part Two by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The Woman-Soul leadeth us”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (spoken by Chorus Mysticus)

Faust, Part Two, Act V, Mountain-Gorges, Forest, Rock (Chorus Mysticus), trans. Bayard Taylor (1871)

Taylor's rendering of Goethe's 'Das Ewig-Weibliche', the closing lines of the whole drama.

Citation: "The Woman-Soul leadeth us" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part Two, Act V, Mountain-Gorges, Forest, Rock (Chorus Mysticus), trans. Bayard Taylor (1871). (id goethe-faust-part-two-q5)

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