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... Proceedings of the Canadian Institute - Page 384by Canadian Institute - 1884Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...I. The Spirit lodged in man has spurred him to seeking light, and works out the answer in his life. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly,...doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. "Brahma," Poems. Page 286, note i. Thou art the unanswered question. "The Sphinx," Poems. God enters... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...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 me they fly, I am the wings ; I am the doubter and the dnubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred... | |
| 1877 - 1212 pages
...the Zeit-Geist. Of metaphysic, then, may one not say, as Emerson says in another connection ? — " They reckon ill who leave me out, When me they fly I am the wings ; I am tliu doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." * Dickens' Dombey and Son, ch. xxvii.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
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| William James Linton - 1878 - 470 pages
...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 me they fly,...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... | |
| WM. James - 1878 - 460 pages
...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 am the doubter and the doubt," etc. But now .1 scientific man, feeling something uncanny in this omnipresence of a teleological factor... | |
| 1890 - 668 pages
...to the highest, noblest, sweetest things in us? Nay, it is a presence. For, as Emerson says, — " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly,...am the wings ; I am the doubter and the doubt." And more beautiful still in that well-known, hackneyed perhaps, but unsurpassed passage from Wordsworth:... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Shadow ami sunlight arc the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. t 82 slugs. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven ; But thou, meek lover... | |
| John Hoblyn Appleton, Archibald Henry Sayce - 1881 - 372 pages
...whole of a synthesis of the Zeit-Geist. May we not say of metaphysic in the words of the poet — " They reckon ill who leave me out, When me they fly...and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." Having spoken so severely of Mr. Arnold's later works in their scientific aspect, I desire to record... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...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 me they fly,...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... | |
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