Clews to Emersons Mystic Verse By William Sloane Kennedy
Clews to Emersons Mystic Verse By William Sloane Kennedy
William Sloane Kennedy
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In my own well-worn pocket edition of the poems I have written over these Delphic verses the key-words, " Mind is King. " " The lords of life, the lords of life, I saw them pass, In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim, Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift and Spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of the game Omnipresent without name; Some to see, some to be guessed, They marched from east to west: Little man, least of all, Among the legs o...f his guardians tall, Walked about with puzzled look; Him by the hand dear Nature took, Dearest Nature, strong and kind, Whispered, ' Darling, never mind ! To-morrow they will wear another face, The founder thou; these are thy race ! ' ' Emerson, from his tripod, gives us here a kind of masque to shadow forth the underlying thought of his knotty and incoherent essay with the same title, that mind, the soul, is the only real existence, the world of experience only phantas- magorial, illusory; as we look at it through the colored lenses of our moods, we paint it with our own hues; Nature likes to mystify us; we walk as in a dream, souls never getting into 18 THE AMERICAN AUTHOR actual contact with their objects.
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