...confined to physics or chemistry, biology or psychology. For long ago the Sphinx crouched no longer in stone : She melted into purple cloud, She silvered...flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Monadnoc's head. Thoro a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame: "Who telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all...

...Emerson's "Sphinx": " Uprose the merry Sphinx, And couched no more in stone ; She melted into purple cload, She silvered in the moon ; She spired into a yellow...blossoms red ; She flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Mouadnock's head." He talked long and earnestly upon the subject of our spiritual existence independent...