 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
 | 1907 - 1012 pages
...to be the Brahma of the moral consciousness; and it may well say to the moralists who neglect it: " They reckon ill who leave me out, When me they fly, I am the wings." We shall not have the right starting-point in ethics until we recognize that all rational and self-conscious... | |
 | Stanton Davis Kirkham - 1907 - 202 pages
...longer suffices we turn to the Immanent God; from separateness and duality to oneness and identity. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings." It is the appointed order of human life to work from sense to reason, from reason to intuition; and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 358 pages
...IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think lie is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot...fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they lly, I am the wing* ; I am tlit doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong... | |
 | William Walker Atkinson - 1910 - 228 pages
..."If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain thinks 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 or sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame or fame. They reckon... | |
 | John Herman Randall, J. Gardner Smith - 1910 - 388 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 or sunlight are the same, The vanished gods to me appear, And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon... | |
 | David Lee Maulsby - 1911 - 190 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 the same; 1 Quoted in Dr. Emerson's letter, but I think it is to be found elsewhere. The vanished gods to me... | |
 | David Lee Maulsby - 1911 - 188 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 the same ; 1 Quoted in Dr. Emerson's letter, but I think it is to be found elsewhere. The vanished gods to me... | |
 | Josiah Royce - 1911 - 326 pages
...essentially a type of reality which rationally survives all criticisms and underlies all doubts. " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings." This is what the genuine object of loyalty, the unity of the spiritual life, always says to us when... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1911 - 300 pages
...variety, or as Emerson has it in the poem called ' Brahma ' : — ' If the red slayer think he slays, Far or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanquished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ;... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 702 pages
...If the red slayer thinks 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...who leave me out: When me they fly, I am the wings; le I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode,... | |
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