 If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are...  The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse - Page 105edited by - 1913 - 1023 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...atma, the soul, — not the soul that presides over all, but that which is above the soul itself). "They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly,...the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." The last line recalls the passage in the tenth chapter of the Bhagavat Gita, where we are told which one... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 344 pages
...pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same; J The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame....leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings ; I am thf doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1884 - 880 pages
...universe had great attractions. His poems abound in passages like the following in that entitled Brahma. They reckon ill, who leave me out ; When me they fly,...and the doubt : And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. Or like this in the Song of Nature, in which in answer to the question : But he, the man-child glorious,... | |
 | Josiah Royce - 1885 - 514 pages
...henceforth to be put in the text-books as commonplaces of logical analysis : — " They reckon ill that leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings, I am the doubter and the doubt." — Everything finite we can doubt, but not the Infinite. That eludes even our skepticism. The world-builders,... | |
 | Paschal Beverly Randolph - 1886 - 292 pages
...realize, concerning God, the magnificent significance of Emerson's sublime conception of " Brahma " : " They reckon ill who leave Me out When Me they fly,...the doubt ; — And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." We have reached a faint view of the fact that a bridge extends from us to God, connecting the two ends... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1906 - 1052 pages
...pass, and turn again. "Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame....I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahman sings. "The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven; But thou, meek... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 380 pages
...pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame....They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I-am the wings ; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods... | |
 | Charles Mason Barrows - 1887 - 262 pages
...pervades and contains us. ParaBrahm says : — " The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine for me the sacred Seven ; But thou, meek lover of the good, Find me, and turn thy back on heaven." Emerson's development of the idea of God includes more than has yet been expressed. Man, he says, is... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame....of the good ! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. IMMORTALITY. TTTE live by desire to live; we live by choice; by will, by thought, • ^ by virtue,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame....of the good! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. IMMORTALITY. TTTE live by desire to live; we live by choice; by will, by thought, * * by virtue, by... | |
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