 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 Day's Work - Page 363by Rudyard Kipling - 1898 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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
...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
...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 he is...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
...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 think he is...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
...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 think he...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... | |
 | 1890 - 1460 pages
...utterance. In " Brahma," Emerson reproduces a thorough-going pantheism : — " If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again. " Far and forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear... | |
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