 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...  Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 470by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Winfred Hervey - 1884 - 888 pages
...present belief of the Brahmins in its relations to human life: " 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. " They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I urn the doubter and the doubt,... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 346 pages
...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 know not well...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.... | |
 | 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
...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
...on the immutable reality of the supersensual world : Said Brahma. 1f 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. This being so, the Oriental may well have thought, — since all is Maya, and assassin and victim are... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1906 - 1052 pages
..."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 slain, They know not well...me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. "They reckon ill who leave me out ; When... | |
 | 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...me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...in the stroke, there is omnipotence of recoil. i860. BRAHMA. TF the red slayer think he slays, -*- Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well...me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 1044 pages
...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 know not well...me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When... | |
 | 1890 - 1460 pages
..." Brahma," Emerson reproduces a thorough-going pantheism : — " If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well...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 ; And... | |
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