...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...blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monadiioc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame; ' Who telleth one of my meanings...

...on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply.' Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no inore in stone; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered...blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monaduoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame; 1 Who telleth one of my meanings...

...her poise and look of inspiration, that other stanza in Emerson's poem : Uprose the merry Sphinx And crouched no more in stone, She melted into purple...blossoms red, She flowed into a foaming wave, She stood Monadnock's head. The billowy movement of the mantle at the back of America emphasizes the mental movement...

...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...blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Monadnoc's head." We pass over the Threnody, where " well-sung woes " might soothe a " pensive ghost."...

...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...blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Monadnoc's head." We pass over the Threnody, where " well-sung woes " might soothe a " pensive ghost."...

...ply, Ask on, thou clothed eternity, — Time is the false reply." 120 Uprose the merry Sphynx, And crouched no more in stone, She melted into purple...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....

...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...

...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...blossoms red ; She flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame; "Who telleth one of my meanings,...

...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,...

...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...blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Monadnoc's head. Through a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame: "Who telleth one of my meanings,...