English poem
Voice
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
She has scored and has flayed me: See the wounds she has made me!
WITCHES (chorus)
The way is wide, the way is long: See, what a wild and crazy throng! The broom it scratches, the fork it thrusts, The child is stifled, the mother bursts. WIZARDS (semichorus)
As doth the snail in shell, we crawl: Before us go the women all. When towards the Devil’s House we tread, Woman’s a thousand steps ahead.