 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
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1901 - 222 pages
...religion and the 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... | |
 | James Albert Clark - 1901 - 258 pages
...changing everything in our modern and liberal thought. It was the doubter who brought all this about. "I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahman sings." Uncultured faith and dogmatic agnosticism are both unphilosophical to the Theosophic... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 348 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... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 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 good!... | |
 | Mark Richardson - 1997 - 296 pages
...chapters 2 and 3. But one rightly shrinks at placing Frost alongside Eliot and over against Emerson. They reckon ill who leave me out, When me they fly...doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. (Oxford Authors edition 558) So Emerson himself writes in "Brahma," one of Frost's favorite poems.... | |
 | Sutapas Bhattacharya - 1999 - 714 pages
...be appropriate. As the verse from Emerson's Brahma, quoted at the head of the Preface, aptly states: They reckon ill who leave me out When me they fly, I am the wings 2(k). ON PARANORMAL PHENOMENA The siddhis (supernormal powers) and space-time transcendence In Brown's... | |
 | John Burroughs - 2000 - 348 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... | |
 | Gabriel Horn - 2000 - 264 pages
...purification; the stones; The forms of our ceremonies. PART II GREETING THE DAY, ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND GRATITUDE They reckon ill who leave me out: When me they fly,...am the wings I am the doubter and the doubt, And I am the hymn, the Brahmin sings... 29 — Ralph Waldo Emerson "Brahma" THE PIPE AND THE TOBACCO When... | |
 | Archibald Edward Gough - 2000 - 298 pages
...vanished gods to me appear, And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out, Me when they fly I am the wings ; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahman sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred seven ; But thou, meek... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...called the chess-board white - we call it black. Robert Browning, Bishop Blougram's Apology (1855) 13 I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. RW Emerson, Brahma (1857) H Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. Miguel de Unamuno, / ..< Agonia... | |
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