| John Burroughs - 1884 - 346 pages
...good compost of them both, and her ends are prospered whichever succeed. "If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again." What is the end of Nature? Where is the end of a sphere ? The sphere balances at any and every point.... | |
| George Lunt - 1884 - 306 pages
...Mab-struck thing I am. * •BRAHMA— BY RWE IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain thiuk 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 sunshine are the same, The vanished gods to me appear And one... | |
| Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 pages
...needlessly augmented by the absurd misprints of the English edition): If the red slayer think he stays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the suhtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly,... | |
| 1885 - 528 pages
...a vague and mystical exposition of pantheism. Emerson extracted the gist of it in his " Brahma ; " If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways. 1 keep, and pass, and turn again. And here is Mr. Arnold's rendering: If he that slayeth thinks " I... | |
| 1883 - 558 pages
...the senses, and fix his heart on the immutable reality of the supersensual world : Said Brahma. 1f the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. This being so, the Oriental may well have thought, — since all is Maya, and assassin and victim are... | |
| Paul Carus - 1906 - 1052 pages
...his beautiful poem entitled "Brahma," from which we may be permitted to quote the following stanzas: "If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...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... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...same water. If there be omnipotence in the stroke, there is omnipotence of recoil. i860. BRAHMA. TF the red slayer think he slays, -*- Or if the slain...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... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 1044 pages
...mistaken, is a part of this selected and choice remainder. Read it again: If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...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... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...in the stroke, there is omnipotence of recoil 1860. BRAHMA. "TF the red slayer think he slays, -J- 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... | |
| 1888 - 344 pages
...parodied, although no parody approaches the mystery of the original. BRAHMA. IF the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain. They know well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight... | |
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