 BRAHMA 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...  Complete Works - Page 168by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | American fiction - 1906 - 560 pages
...appropriate to itself those words which Emerson put in the mouth of Brahma : If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. And further: They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings. Socialism, when sympathetically... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1892 - 412 pages
...is ir. its rery Ground one and the same : BLAHMA. BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON. If the Red Slayer thinks he slays, Or if the Slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways 1 keep and pass and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near, Sunlight and Shadow are the same, The... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - English literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...her spirit to endure All forms of fear, in that firm trust secure. BRAHMA. BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON. IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...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 shame and fame.... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, William Torrey Harris - Education - 1893 - 378 pages
...excited much the same ridicule that the " Orphic Sayings " had caused, nearly twenty years before. " If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again.' This is more paradoxical than anything Alcott wrote. But the poem is a perfect image of the " Bhagavad... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - English literature - 1893 - 458 pages
...her spirit to endure All forms of fear, in that firm trust secure. BRAHMA. BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON. IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, Par or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1894 - 340 pages
...through the weltering pit of the salt sea. And yet I marked, even in the manly joy Of our greatrhearted Doctor in his boat (Perchance I erred), a shade of...slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slaiiu They know not well the subtle"ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - Religion - 1894 - 906 pages
...with which you are all familiar. I mean the poem on " Brahma." The poem begins as follows : — '• If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again." The Sanskrit text is : " Hanta chen manyate hantum hatas chen manyate hatam. Ubhan tan na Vijinito... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 850 pages
...stage in which thought sees uudifferentiated unity, fused wholes, is fitly hinted in Emerson's Hymn of Brahma — "If the red slayer think he slays, Or If...well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again." * The Inaugural address at the 1895 session Indiana State Teachers' Association. This was the age of... | |
 | John Burroughs - Natural history - 1895 - 268 pages
...the hunter; she will make good compost of them both, and her ends are prospered whichever succeed. " If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again." What is the end of Nature 1 Where is the end of a sphere 1 The sphere balances at any and every point.... | |
 | John Burroughs - Natural history - 1895 - 268 pages
...the hunter; she will make good compost of them both, and her ends are prospered whichever succeed. " If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again." What is the end of Nature? Where is the end of a sphere ? The sphere balances at any and every point.... | |
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