Show 0 Chapel 7 1 Thoughts THE services at t Chapel were conducted by Mr R Roylance last week T The e following following fol fol- lowing lo poem of Emerson was read an and briefly analyzed i j Jc i r THE THE SPHINX t d. d f THE Sphinx is drowsy H Her er wings are furled J Her e ear r is heavy heay m She broods on the world A j M r I. I IVIA Who'll tell me my secret The ages have kept kept kept- nolt XO p C I I waited the s seer er t While t slumbered red and d they ey a slept i i J t fj rJ II The fate of the man man child child 1 v The meaning of man rt i I J i f Known fruit of the unknown y 1 J J. plan f f- f v Out of sleeping a waking 23 az t 1 Out of waking a asleep sleep i 1 rip Life death overtaking 1 f HP- HP v Deep underneath deep l 1 I fol Erect as a sunbeam J f 1 l the palm i I The elephant browses t f 1 i Undaunted and calm IK I rJ i In beautiful motion I 4 ft IT i B f. f S. S The thrush flies his wings 3 f s j J jj i f C h Kind leaves of his covert 5 p. p Your silence he sings I f U UI I v k f C i U 0 j In difference sweet ij V r the trie Play glad giad with breezes r F Old playfellows meet r f JL The journeying atoms t- t Primordial wholes I j 1 r I J. J f Firmly draw firmly drive rive t. t j By their animate poles I k t iea i alit Sea Sea ea earth air sound silence Plant quadruped bird Jr j r By one music enchanted I One stirred stirred stirred- a as Each the other adorning s t. t still r Fight the morning Ii i i 1 The vapor the hill j f ry II The babe by its mother f 4 tJ J 1 I Lies bathed in j joy y 1 1 I Glide its hours uncounted uncounted uncounted- d LS v The sun is its toy Shines the p peace ace of all aU being j Without cloud in its eyes t f h And the sum of the world In soft miniature lies J art i 1 T U But But man couches and blushes Absconds and conce conceals ls a 1 i. i a. a He and He falters and steals If a Infirm melancholy T Jealous glancing around r r l li An oaf an accomplice If I He poisons the ground f L tT ul l i I Out spoke the great mother w f fJ r Beholding his fear fear fear- J Hi At the sound of her accents j Cold shuddered the sphere sphere sphere- j f f ii re- re l. l t x I Who has drugged my boys boy's cup T tr ii- ii Who has mixed my boys boy's bread i 1 I. I Who with sadness and madness Has turned my childs child's head 4 li tj f b r. r I heard eard a poet answer Aloud and cheerfully l J t t F F H Say Say on sweet Sphinx I 1 thy toy dirges Are pleasant songs songs to me me idl t Deep lov love lieth under j 3 9 These hese pictures of time if r n If f r c. c 1 1 I fade in the of j They light r e art Their meaning sublime 1 H II The fiend that man harries barries 4 o i Is love of the best r 1 Yawns the pit of the Dragon i 11 l Lit by from the Blest rays J J r T w. w l The Lethe of Nature r tn Cant Can't trance him again fU 0 Whose soul s sees sees es the perfect i 3 i 3 Which his eyes seek in vain 7 p It To To vision profounder ji j. j i J Mans Man's spirit mu must t dive His rolling aye orb l J i i- i At no goal will arrive j The heavens that now draw him b h. h fi With sweetness untold t i j jOnce tj Once found found for for new heavens J vv t ar 11 0 h the h old ld H He e t eo If J J I Pride ruined the angels i b Their shame them restores j j Y Lurks the joy that is sweet sweetest st t S h f J. J I r In stings 0 of f remorse vi Have I a lover i c jJ Who is noble and free s f sI In t. t I would he were nobler h Than to love me k i i MJ r I Eternal alternation r T Ta Now follows now flies A I a And under pain pam pleasure pleasure- Under pleasure pain lies A i Af Love wor works s at the centre l 1 Heart heaving alway Forth the strong pulses pulses- To the borders of day Dull Sphinx Jove keep thy five wits f p Thy sight is is growing blear Rue myrrh and for the t Her muddy eyes to clear 1 1 The old bit her thick lip lip lip- Said Who taught thee m me to name I am thy spirit yoke yoke-f yoke fellow lIow Of thine eye I am Thou art the unanswered question j J see thy ihy proper eye Always it asketh asketh 1 And each answer is a lie f J So take thy quest nature It through thousand natures fly f h Ask on thou clothed eternity 1 Time is the false reply Ii t the merry Sphinx And crouched no more in stone f r She melted in into to purple cloud q j She silvered in in the moon She floweret in in blossoms red She flow flowed d into a foaming wave J Ii She st stood od head 1 J Through gh a a. thousand voices voices f 4 d t Spoke the universal dame LJ J Who one of my my meanings Is master of all aU I am t 0 0 J F r. r U |