...nature, It through thousand natures ply ; Ask on, thou clothed eternity ; Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone...flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices / Spoke the universal dame : " Who telleth one of my meaning^ Is master...

...better after fifty years more of Emerson. The Sphinx has had the last word and drawn the last circle. "Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in...flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Monadnoc's head." The Sphinx changes her old form and mode of existence, and now appears in the six objects enumerated....

...sphinx. In "The Problem" we have a specific sphinx. "The Sphinx" appears in ten thousand sphinxes. v "Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in...flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Monadnoc's head." In short, the Sphinx appears in all things where a question may be asked. "Ask on, thou clothed eternity,"...

...nature, It through thousand natures ply ; Ask on, thou clothed eternity ; Time is the false reply." Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone...flowed into a foaming wave : She stood Monadnoc's head. , Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame ; " Who telleth one of my meanings Is master...

...thousand natures ply ; Ask on, thou clothed eternity,; t.Time is the false , ' " U**"" Uprose the iperry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted...into a foaming wave ; ' She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame : " Who telleth one of my meanings, Is master of...

...reply." •v/ .Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone ; She melted into purple cloud, .jj She silvered in the moon ; •She spired into a yellow flame ; She flowered in blossoms red ; ft She flowed into a foaming wave j* She stood Monadnoc's head. L -r *• tl Thorough a thousand...

...nature, It through thousand natures ply; Ask on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply.' no Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone;...blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monaduoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame ; 130 ' Who telleth one of my...

...through nature, It through thousand natures ply; Ask on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply.' Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone;...blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monadiioc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame; ' Who telleth one of my meanings...

...on, thou clothed eternity; Time is the false reply.' Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no inore in stone; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered...blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monaduoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame; 1 Who telleth one of my meanings...

...disconsolateness, then America recalls, by her poise and look of inspiration, that other stanza in Emerson's poem : Uprose the merry Sphinx And crouched no more in stone,...blossoms red, She flowed into a foaming wave, She stood Monadnock's head. The billowy movement of the mantle at the back of America emphasizes the mental movement...