Note 12 — Chapter IV · “THE END OF A MUSICIAN IN PARIS”
Reading edition
The God that in my breast is owned Can deeply stir the inner sources; The God above my powers enthroned, He cannot change external forces, So, by the burden of my days oppressed, Death is desired, and Life a thing unblest! Goethe's "Faust," Act I, Scene 4.
Bayard Taylor's translation.