Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79.
Brahma
By Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)I
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Shadow and sunlight are the same.
The vanished gods to me appear,
And one to me are shame and fame.
When me they fly, I am the wings,
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
And pine in vain the sacred Seven;
But thou, meek lover of the good!
Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.