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The Sphynx is drowsy	A
Her wings are furled	B
Her ear is heavy	A
She broods on the world	B
Who'll tell me my secret	B
The ages have kept	B
I awaited the seer	C
While they slumbered and slept	B
	-
The fate of the manchild	B
The meaning of man	D
Known fruit of the unknown	E
D dalian plan	D
Out of sleeping a waking	F
Out of waking a sleep	G
Life death overtaking	F
Deep underneath deep	G
	-
Erect as a sunbeam	H
Upspringeth the palm	I
The elephant browses	A
Undaunted and calm	I
In beautiful motion	J
The thrush plies his wings	A
Kind leaves of his covert	B
Your silence he sings	A
	-
The waves unashamed	B
In difference sweet	B
Play glad with the breezes	A
Old playfellows meet	B
The journeying atoms	A
Primordial wholes	A
Firmly draw firmly drive	K
By their animate poles	A
	-
Sea earth air sound silence	A
Plant quadruped bird	B
By one music enchanted	B
One deity stirred	B
Each the other adorning	F
Accompany still	L
Night veileth the morning	F
The vapor the hill	L
	-
The babe by its mother	M
Lies bathed in joy	N
Glide its hours uncounted	B
The sun is its toy	N
Shines the peace of all being	F
Without cloud in its eyes	A
And the sum of the world	B
In soft miniature lies	A
	-
But man crouches and blushes	A
Absconds and conceals	A
He creepeth and peepeth	O
He palters and steals	A
Infirm melancholy	A
Jealous glancing around	B
An oaf an accomplice	A
He poisons the ground	B
	-
Out spoke the great mother	M
Beholding his fear	P
At the sound of her accents	A
Cold shuddered the sphere	P
Who has drugged my boy's cup	Q
Who has mixed my boy's bread	B
Who with sadness and madness	A
Has turned the manchild's head	B
	-
I heard a poet answer	M
Aloud and cheerfully	A
Say on sweet Sphynx thy dirges	A
Are pleasant songs to me	A
Deep love lieth under	M
These pictures of time	R
They fade in the light of	S
Their meaning sublime	R
	-
The fiend that man harries	A
Is love of the Best	B
Yawns the Pit of the Dragon	J
Lit by rays from the Blest	B
The Lethe of Nature	M
Can't trance him again	T
Whose soul sees the Perfect	B
Which his eyes seek in vain	U
	-
Profounder profounder	M
Man's spirit must dive	K
To his aye rolling orbit	B
No goal will arrive	K
The heavens that draw him	V
With sweetness untold	B
Once found for new heavens	A
He spurneth the old	B
	-
Pride ruined the angels	A
Their shame them restores	A
And the joy that is sweetest	B
Lurks in stings of remorse	A
Have I a lover	M
Who is noble and free	M
I would he were nobler	M
Than to love me	M
	-
Eterne alternation	J
Now follows now flies	A
And under pain pleasure	M
Under pleasure pain lies	A
Love works at the centre	M
Heart heaving alway	W
Forth speed the strong pulses	A
To the borders of day	B
	-
Dull Sphynx Jove keep thy five wits	A
Thy sight is growing blear	M
Rue myrrh and cummin for the Sphynx	A
Her muddy eyes to clear	M
The old Sphynx bit her thick lip	X
Who taught thee me to name	Y
I am thy spirit yoke fellow	Z
Of thine eye I am eyebeam	Y
	-
Thou art the unanswered question	J
Couldst see thy proper eye	A2
Alway it asketh asketh	O
And each answer is a lie	A2
So take thy quest through nature	M
It through thousand natures ply	A2
Ask on thou clothed eternity	M
Time is the false reply	A2
	-
Uprose the merry Sphynx	A
And crouched no more in stone	E
She melted into purple cloud	B
She silvered in the moon	B2
She spired into a yellow flame	Y
She flowered in blossoms red	B
She flowed into a foaming wave	C2
She stood Monadnoc's head	B
	-
Thorough a thousand voices	A
Spoke the universal dame	Y
Who telleth one of my meanings	A
Is master of all I am	Y

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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