| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 306 pages
...MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. I BRAHMA. F the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, j hey know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and...gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. j They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings ; J I am the doubter and the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 304 pages
...MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. BRAHMA. F the red^layer think he slays, \ Or if the slain think he is slain, r" hey know not well the subtle ways \ I keep, and pass,...Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to rne appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly,... | |
| John Burroughs - 1904 - 310 pages
...hunter; she will make good compost of them both, and her ends are prospered whichever succeeds. "If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again." What is the end of Nature? Where is the end 51 of a sphere ? The sphere balances at any and every point.... | |
| John Burroughs - 1904 - 316 pages
...hunter; she will make good compost of them both, and her ends are prospered whichever succeeds. "If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again." What is the end of Nature ? Where is the end 51 of a sphere ? The sphere balances at any and every... | |
| John Burroughs - 1904 - 290 pages
...This is all the God we can know, and this we cannot help but know. We want no evidence of this God " Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are...gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame." Men labor to prove the existence of their God, but labor never so much, and you cannot prove the nonexistence... | |
| Edward Carpenter - Consciousness - 1904 - 280 pages
...get over that illusion the better : — " If the red slayer thinks he slays, And if the slain thinks he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again." 252 Evening in Spring : a Meditation In this scene to-night there is a life which equalises individual... | |
| Edward Carpenter - Consciousness - 1904 - 276 pages
...over that illusion the better : — " If the red slayer thinks he slays, . And if the slain thinks he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again." 252 In this scene to-night there is a life which equalises individual fortune and misfortune. One blue-bell... | |
| Oscar Lovell Triggs - Democracy - 1905 - 312 pages
...after, as not to need quotation : "If the red slayer thinks he slnys, Or if the slain think he is alain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass,...The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are ehame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly I am the wings; I am the doubter... | |
| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 306 pages
...yet, for all his faith could see, I would not the good bishop be. 1840. Ralph Waldo Emerson. BRAHMA IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. 4 Far or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear ;... | |
| CURTIS HIDDE PAGE - 1905 - 746 pages
...again; No darkness stains its equal gleam And ages drop in it like rain. 1850-57. 1858. BRAHMA 1 IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. 1 Thia simple and condensed figurative statement of one of the commonplaces of any idealistic philosophy,... | |
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