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" They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven; But thou, meek lover of the good! Find me, and... "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong...of the good! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. IMMORTALITY. TTTE live by desire to live; we live by choice; by will, by thought, * * by virtue, by...
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Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors, Volume 5

1888 - 344 pages
...fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings ; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong...of the good ! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. This first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, (No. l) November, 1857. DAMN, AH...
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A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong...of the good ! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. IMMORTALITY. TTTE live by desire to live; we live by choice; by will, by thought, • ^ by virtue,...
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American Literature, 1607-1885

Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 1044 pages
...fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings ; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong...the sacred Seven ; But thou, meek lover of the good 1 Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. A paraphrase of this brief poem seems almost superfluous and...
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American Literature, 1607-1885: American poetry and fiction

Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 476 pages
...fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong...vain the sacred Seven; But thou, meek lover of the goodl Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. A paraphrase of this brief poem seems almost superfluous...
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Beginnings of Hindu Pantheism: An Address, Delivered at the Twenty-second ...

Charles Rockwell Lanman - 1890 - 94 pages
...Shadow and sunlight are the same, The vanished gods to me appear, And one to me are shame and fame. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain...of the good ! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. What a prospect, dark and void, — this Supreme Spirit, before whom all human endeavor, all noble...
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An Old Scrap-book: With Additions

1891 - 734 pages
...They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings. I am the doubter and the doubt, The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain...of the good ! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. EMERSON. MY THOUGHTS. MY thoughts are bound within a cell of care, I have not eye nor ear which strays...
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Miscellaneous Notes and Queries, Volumes 9-10

1892 - 412 pages
...the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And 1 the Hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods twine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven, But...of the Good, Find me, and turn thy back on Heaven. THE HUMAN FORM. By WILLIAM BLAKE. To mercy, pity, peace, and love. All pray in their distress; And...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...the proverb finds its echo in the mystic lines of Emerson, where Brahma is represented as saying,— is simply a full translation of the first advertisement (correcting obv Brahma. Cider, All talk and no. An American colloquialism which finds its English equivalents in the...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...the proverb finds its echo in the mystic lines of Emerson, where Brahma is represented as saying, — But thou, meek lover of the good. Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. Brahma. Cider, All talk and no. An American colloquialism which finds its English equivalents in the...
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