THE INFORMING SPIRIT

 

                                I

   There is no great and no small

To the soul that maketh all:

And where it cometh, all things are;
And it cometh everywhere.

II

I am owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
Of Cæsar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain.

CIRCLES

                Nature centres into balls,

               And her proud ephemerals,
               Fast to surface and outside,
               Scan the profile of the sphere;
              Knew they what that signified,
              A new genesis were here.

 

          

             Author

 

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecurer,philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.