All 6 Uses of
cleave
in
Faust
- And yet, the struggle fails; since Light, howe'er it weaves, Still, fettered, unto bodies cleaves: It flows from bodies, bodies beautifies; By bodies is its course impeded; And so, but little time is needed, I hope, ere, as the bodies die, it dies!†
- Yet I perceive no cloven foot; And both your ravens, where are they now?†
- VOICE (from above) Who calls from the rocky cleft below there?†
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- The Garter does not deck my suit, But honored and at home is here the cloven foot.†
- MEPHISTOPHELES (dancing with the old one) A dissolute dream once came to me: Therein I saw a cloven tree, Which had a——; Yet,——as 'twas, I fancied it.†
- THE OLD ONE I offer here my best salute Unto the knight with cloven foot!†