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Title: Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit)
A Tragedy in Four Acts

Author: Frank Wedekind

Translator: Samuel Eliot

Release Date: August 13, 2009 [EBook #29682]

Language: English

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ERDGEIST

LULU
BY FRANK WEDEKIND
ERDGEIST (EARTH-SPIRIT) $1.00
PANDORA'S BOX (In Preparation)

ERDGEIST

(Earth-Spirit)

A Tragedy in Four Acts
BY
FRANK WEDEKIND

Translated by Samuel A. Eliot, Jr.

NEW YORK
ALBERT AND CHARLES BONI
1914

Copyright, 1914
by
Albert and Charles Boni

"I was created out of ranker stuff
By Nature, and to the earth by Lust am drawn.
Unto the spirit of evil, not of good,
The earth belongs. What deities send to us
From heaven are only universal goods;
Their light gives gladness, but makes no man rich;
And in their state possession not obtains.
Therefore, the stone of price, all-treasured gold,
Must from the powers of falsehood be enticed,
The evil race that dwells beneath the day.
Not without sacrifice their favor is gained,
And no man liveth who from serving them
Hath extricated undefiled