I hurry off to drink eternal light (from Faust)

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

English version by Peter Salm
Original Language German

I hurry off to drink eternal light;
before me lies the day, behind the night,
the sky above me, and the seas below.

-- from Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Translated by Peter Salm

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