 Thou art the unanswered question; Couldst see thy proper eye, Alway it asketh, asketh; And each answer is a lie. So take thy quest through nature, It through thousand natures ply; Ask on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply.  The Arena - Page 5021904Full view - About this book
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...unanswered question : — Couldst see thy proper eye, Alway it asketh, asketb, And each answer is a lie. So take thy quest through nature, It through thousand...on, thou clothed eternity, Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone, She hopped into the baby's eyes, She hopped... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...uuanswered question ; Couldst see thy proper eye, Alway it asketh, askelh, And each answer is a lie. So take thy quest through nature, It through thousand...thou clothed Eternity— Time is the false reply. Taking the hypothesis as a solution of human thought, assuming the conclusion, or demonstrating the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...unanswered question; Couldst see thy proper eye, Alway it asketh, asketh, And each answer is a lie. So take thy quest through nature, It through thousand...thou clothed eternity,— Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphynx, And crouched no more in stone, She melted into purple cloud, She silvered... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1847 - 576 pages
...unanswered question ; Couldst see thy proper eye, Alway it asketh, osketh ; And each answer is a lie. So take thy quest through nature, It through thousand...thou clothed eternity ; Time is the false reply.' " — pp. 9 - 13. The contrast between moral and physical is founded in fancy. The disorders of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...unanswered question ; Couldst see thy proper eye, Alway it asketh, asketh ; And each answer is a lie. So take thy quest through nature, It through thousand...thou clothed eternity ; Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered... | |
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...unanswered question ; Couldst see thy proper eye, Alway it asketh, asketh ; And each answer is a lie. So take thy quest through nature, It through thousand...thou clothed eternity ; Time is the false reply.' " — pp. 9 - 13. The contrast between moral and physical is founded in fancy. The disorders of the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...unanswer'd question >— • Couldst see thy proper eye, Alway it askcth, askcth, And each answer is a lie. So take thy quest through nature, It through thousand...on, thou clothed eternity, Time is the false reply." UproK the merry Sphinr, And crouch'd no more in (tone, She hopp'd into the baby's eyes, She hopp'd... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...unanswer'd question : — Couldst see thy proper eye, Alway it asketh, asketh, And each answer is a lie. So take thy quest through nature, It through thousand...on, thou clothed eternity, Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouch'd no more in stone, She hopp'd into the baby's oyes, She hopp'd... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...unanswered question; Couldst see thy proper eye, Alway it asketh, asketh ; And each answer is a lie. So take thy quest through nature, • It through thousand...on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply. ' Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered... | |
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...cries for another. " Couldst see thy proper eye, Alway it asketh, asketh; and each answer is a lie. So take thy quest through nature, it through thousand...on, thou clothed eternity; time is the false reply." There is no remedy, no hope. Each new solution, as soon as obtained, ceases to be true. The answer... | |
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