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... Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet - Page 309by Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1891 - 322 pages
...echoing the philosophy of ancient India, he comes almost within sight of a consistent Pantheism : — " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings ; / am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." After the prose, certainly, Emersoniuns... | |
| 1906 - 560 pages
...think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. And further: They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings. Socialism, when sympathetically understood and broadly interpreted means, as we understand it, the... | |
| Brooklyn Ethical Association - 1892 - 584 pages
...and Agnostics, with a patient mind. For such religious teaching sings the song the Brahmin sings : " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly I am the wings." Show me the man who can teach astronomy, who can teach geology, who can teach biology, who can teach... | |
| 1892 - 412 pages
...Red Slayer thinks he slays, Or if the Slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways 1 keep and pass and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near, Sunlight and Shadow are the same, The vanished gods to me appear, And one to me are shame and fame.... | |
| Isaac Winter Heysinger - 1894 - 378 pages
...the microcosm, the panurgus, the Brahma, the Ancient of Days, and cannot be silenced or evaded : " They reckon ill who leave me out, When ME they fly I am the wings." R. Kalley Miller, in his " Romance of Astronomy," says, " It would be hopeless to attempt expressing... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 340 pages
...the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slaiiu 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, ona tn me " They reckon... | |
| William James Potter - 1895 - 474 pages
...kindness, and truth. It is the voice of the One over all and through all, who has the right to say: — " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings. They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again." Man may follow the ways of the... | |
| National Municipal League - 1896 - 328 pages
...mysticism, that poem which begins, " If the red slayer thinks he slays," in some part of which he says: " They reckon ill who leave me out, When me they fly;...I am the wings, I am the doubter and the doubt."" Shakespeare repeats the same idea in one of his plays. He says:. " The fault, dear Brutus, lies not... | |
| National Municipal League - 1896 - 328 pages
...mysticism, that poem which begins, " If the red slayer thinks he slays," in some part of which he says: " They reckon ill who leave me out, When me they fly; I am the wings, I am the doubter and the doubt." Shakespeare repeats the same idea in one of his plays. He says r " The fault, dear Brutus, lies not... | |
| 1896 - 328 pages
...mysticism, that poem which begins, " If the red slayer thinks he slays," in some part of which he says : " They reckon ill who leave me out, When me they fly...I am the wings, I am the doubter and the doubt.'* Shakespeare repeats the same idea in one of his plays. He says : " The fault, dear Brutus, lies not... | |
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