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Opening of Nerval's "Pandora" (from Goethe's "Faust")

From Nerval's translation of  Faust: Two souls, alas, dwell within my breast, each wishing to be free from the other. The one, pining for love, grasps at the world with its bodily organs. A supernatural motion sweeps the other upward, far from the gloom below, towards the lofty realms of our ancestors.