 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
 | 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... | |
 | James Lindsay - 1896 - 238 pages
...beyond its doubt and hears the spirit of the Universe saying, as in his mystical poem " Brahma," — " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly,...I am the wings ; I am the doubter and the doubt." Marvellous, too, is his mysticism : in " Woodnotes" he speaks of God as "the Eternal Pan Who layeth... | |
 | 1898 - 946 pages
...Slayer think he slays, Or if the Slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I come 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.... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 968 pages
...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 tho same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1901 - 222 pages
...Divine, they would do well to remember the lines which Emerson puts into the mouth of his Brahma : " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings." What Is Religion ? November Second. Some one has gone out that makes life seem vacant and empty. Hopes... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 pages
...red slayer think he slays, *. Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanish'd gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1902 - 1118 pages
...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...me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanish'd gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1903 - 176 pages
...the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings, 1 am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." But remember that if God is infinite... | |
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