Excerpt from Faust: A Dramatic Sketch

The present poem is one of the twenty-nine Fausts, by various authors, which appeared in Germany, during the sixty-one years in which Goethe was employed upon his masterpiece.

Adalbert Von Chamisso, unfortunately best known by his least important work (Peter Schlemihl), has sunk into unmerited oblivion, and under the impression that this poem has never before appeared in our language, I have ventured to translate it, although merely a sketch, not entirely free from obscurities.

Chamisso was a ripe scholar, a naturalist of high rank, and has been characterized as "a hale, hearty, sinewy poet."

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