...the cannonade of wars ; ;j'With the marches of the brave; And prayers of might from martyrs' cave. Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber 3<i With the coil of rhythm and number; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb...

...With the cannonade of wars; With the marches of the brave; And prayers of might from martyrs' cave. Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard....brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; jo But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. • Pass in, pass in,'...

...its reconciling all-inclusiveness, are very near in thought to Whitman; so again is "Merlin" with its Great is the art, Great be the manners of the bard...; He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhyme and number, — or " Woodnotes " — " God hid the whole world in thy heart " — or the exclamation...

...be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; 30 But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. 1 Pass in, pass in,' the angels say, Nor count compartments of the floors, ' In to the upper doors,...

...With the cannonade of wars. With the marches of the brave, 25 And prayers of might from martyrs' cave. Great is the art, Great be the manners of the bard...brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number, 30 But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme : Pass in, pass in, the...

...Emerson's mind, that the same subject absorbed it each time for each sort of expression; he surely did 'not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number, But, leaving rule and pale forethought, Climbed for his rhyme' to that exalted emotionalizing of the impression of the sea he gained at Cape...

...With the cannonade of wars ; With the marches of the brave ; And prayers of might from martyrs' cave. Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard....pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. 4 Pass in, pass in,' the angels say, ' Jn to the upper doors, Nor count compartments of the floors,...

...the place and functions of the poet. In the second verse of the first part of Merlin he writes : ' Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard....For his rhyme. " Pass in, pass in," the angels say, " Into the upper doors, Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to Paradise By stairway of...

...recklessness of expression rather than lose the impetus of his story. Emerson says of the bard in Merlin: " He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm...pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme." Later in the same poem he rejects for his ideal poet insipidity and formalism : "He shall not seek...

...With the cannonade of wars; With the marches of the brave; And prayers of might from martyrs' cave. Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard....brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; 30 But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the...