...Thus the riddle is solved, then the Sphinx turns into beautiful things: " Uprose the merry sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple...flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Monadnoc's head." We pass over the Threnody, where " well-sung woes " might soothe a " pensive ghost." The Dirge contains...

...nature, It through thousand natures ply, Ask on, thou clothed eternity, — Time is the false reply." 120 Uprose the merry Sphynx, And crouched no more in stone,...silvered in the moon, She spired into a yellow flame, • 125 She flowered in blossoms red, She flowed into a foaming wave, , She stood Monadnoc's0 head....

...thou from speech refrained, Nobility more nobly to repay? O, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!" EACH AND ALL ' Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of thee from the hill- top looking down; The heifer that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm;...

...stone, She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon, She spired into a yellow flame, 125 She flowered in blossoms red, She flowed into a foaming wave, She stood Monadnoc's0 head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame, 130 " Who telleth one of my...

...thousand natures ply: Ask on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone) She melted into purple...the universal dame; "Who telleth one of my meanings, IB master of all I am." EACH AND ALI* LITTLE thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of thee from...

...man is. They present the idea of the unity of all things. Emerson makes Nature say, in The Sphinx, "Who telleth one of my meanings is master of all I am." This is the central theme of The Bhodora. Longfellow, speaking of Emerson, says: It was his faith,...

...thousand natures ply: Ask on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple...flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Monadnoc's head. Through a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame: "Who telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all...

...your soul of life's riddle — an answer transcending articulate speech: — Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple...telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am." This is to Emerson the supreme aspect of the external world — beauty as the revelation of divinity....

...friend and foe are of one stuff," etc. 1 Bh. G. (Telang), ch. xv, 18. 2Bh. G. (Telang), ch. vii, 6-9. She spired into a yellow flame ; She flowered in blossoms...flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head. As we have seen,1 the doctrine of self-reliance finds its warrant in the discovery of God in the human...

...friend and foe are of one stuff," etc. 'Bh. G. (Telang), ch. xv, 18. 2 Bh. G. (Telang), ch. vii, 6-9. She spired into a yellow flame ; She flowered in blossoms...flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head. As we have seen,1 the doctrine of self-reliance finds its warrant in the discovery of God in the human...