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See the wild herd nobly ranging,
Nature varying, not changing,
Lawful in their lawless ranging.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
Live earnestly by turns without despair,
Nor seek a home till home be every where!
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
Mercury has cast aside
The signs of intellectual pride,
Freely offers thee the soul:
Art thou noble to receive?
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
And dost thou seek to find the one in two?
Only upon the old can build the new;
The symbol which you seek is found in you.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
Guard thee from the power of evil;
Who cannot trust, vows to the devil.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
This is my tendency; but can I say
That this my thought leads the true, only way?
I only know it constant leads, and I obey.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
With equal sweetness the commissioned hours
Shed light and dew upon both weeds and flowers.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
The Presence all thy fancies supersedes,
All that is done which thou wouldst seek in deeds,
The wealth obliterates all seeming needs.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
A single thought transfuses every form;
The sunny day is changed into the storm,
For light is dark, hard soft, and cold is warm. One presence fill and floods the whole serene;
Nothing can be, nothing has ever been,
Except the one truth that creates the scene.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
There are to whom each symbol is a mask;
The life of love is a mysterious task;
They want no answer, for they would not ask.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
There are who separate the eternal light
In forms of man and woman, day and night;
They cannot bear that God be essence quite.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
The day wears heavily, — why, then, ignore it;
Peace is the soul's desire, — such thoughts restore it;
The truth thou art, — it needs not implore it.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
I prize thy gentle heart,
Free from ambition, falsehood, or art,
And thy good mind,
Daily refined,
By pure desire
To fan the heaven-seeking fire.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
Life-flow of my natal hour, I will not weary of thy power,
Till in the changes of thy sound
A chord's three parts distinct are found.
I will faithful move with thee,
God-ordered, self-fed energy,
Nature in eternity.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
Existence is as deep a verity:
Without the dual, where is unity?
And the "I am"" cannot forbear to be; But from its primal nature forced to frame
Mysteries, destinies of various name,
Is forced to give that it has taught to claim.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
You ask a faith, — they are content with faith;
You ask to have, — but they reply "IT hath."
There is no end, there need be no path.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
Thoughts which come at a call
Are no better than if they came not at all
Neither flower nor fruit,
Yielding no root
For plant, shrub, or tree.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit
Born of an ever-generating root...
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
The pass-word now is lost
To that initiation full and free;
Daily we pay the cost
Of our slow schooling for divine degree.
We know no means to feed an undying lamp;
Our lights go out in every wind or damp.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
The pencil moved prophetic: together now men read
In the fair book of nature, and find the hope they need.
The wreath woven by the river is by the seaside worn,
And one of fate's best arrows to its due mark is borne.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)