All 6 Uses of
cleave
in
Faust -- translated by Brooks
- …a whole; Part of the part am I, which once was all, the Gloom That brought forth Light itself from out her mighty womb, The upstart proud, that now with mother Night Disputes her ancient rank and space and right, Yet never shall prevail, since, do whate'er he will, He cleaves, a slave, to bodies still; From bodies flows, makes bodies fair to sight; A body in his course can check him, His doom, I therefore hope, will soon o'ertake him, With bodies merged in nothingness and night.†
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- But sure no cloven foot I see.†
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- Who calls from the rocky cleft below there?†
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- No garter makes my rank appear, But then the cloven foot stands high in honor here.†
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- A dismal dream once came to me; In it I saw a cloven tree, It had a —— but still, I looked on it with right good-will.†
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- With best respect I here salute The noble knight of the cloven foot!†
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