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And whoever manages to unlock this shrine,
Then, for him, the secret meaning of life,
the big "why," the "where to," the "where from,"
all these questions will be unsealed.
He'd become be almost omniscient and omnipotent,
and there, gentlemen -- is where we're going!!!"

And a shudder ran through our souls.
"Oh, the horror!" yelled the eternal Jew, "the horror!
Stop, stop, I'm getting out!"
It made our throats tighten.

But the king of evil just laughed devilishly,
He bent over the machine
And spoke, as if it were a living being:
"Up, my sweet cloudwalker, up!
Up, up, ascend through the heavens,
The higher the flight, the greater the fall,
Up, my sweet, up!

We'll see unfathomable things,
Despair and conquering misery will be combined.
The world will be scattered in the gray of night!
Now say, gentlemen, how do you like the flight?
Speak, Faust, why do you hide your face so anxiously?

But Faust spoke calmly: "I'm not afraid!
Whatever it is guarding the magic shrine,
Must be something so gigantic, immortal,
that space will pluck your poisonous claws from you -
In the end, you've been duped!"