All 3 Uses
edify
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Faust — translated by Brooks
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- s winding ways.
One comes and sees by chance, one burns, one stays,
And feels the gradual, sweet entangling!
The pleasure grows, then comes a sudden jangling,
Then rapture, then distress an arrow plants,
And ere one dreams of it, lo! there is a romance.
Give us a drama in this fashion!
Plunge into human life's full sea of passion!
Each lives it, few its meaning ever guessed,
Touch where you will, 'tis full of interest.
Bright shadows fleeting o'er a mirror,
A spark of truth and clouds of error,
By means like these a drink is brewed
To cheer and edify the multitude.
The fairest flower of the youth sit listening
Before your play, and wait the revelation;†Chpt Alledify = instruct - The Lord. Hast nothing for our edification?
Still thy old work of accusation?
Will things on earth be never right for thee?†Chpt All *edification = instruction - Mephistopheles. Then pocketed bracelets and chains and rings
As if they were mushrooms or some such things,
With no more thanks, (the greedy-guts!)
Than if it had been a basket of nuts,
Promised them all sorts of heavenly pay—And greatly edified were they.†Chpt Alledified = instructed
Definitions:
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(1)
(edify) to instruct -- morally or intellectually
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)