The self-evolving Energy divine Enclasp you round with love’s embrace benign, And on the floating forms of earth and sky Stamp the fair type of thought that may not die. Mephistopheles. Mephistopheles. From time to time the ancient gentleman I see, and keep on the best terms I can. In a great Lord ’tis surely wondrous civil So face to face to hold talk with the devil. FAUST. FAUST. ACT I. Scene I. Night. Night Faust discovered sitting restless at his desk, in a narrow high-vaulted Gothic chamber. Faust Faust. Faust.