Eidólons
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| Textual Feature | Appearance |
|---|---|
| Overwritten | brown with strikethrough |
| Added inline | purple with double underline |
| Uncertain | gray with wavy underline |
| Supplied from another source | turquoise with brackets |
| Metamark | |
| Long deletion | gray background with top and bottom border |
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world, Thesweets
fruits
joys
fruits
of art
, material joys
& learning, pleasure,
& sense
To glean Eidólons
Put in thy chant, said he.
No more the
visible human
fleeting,
fractional
face
or limb, Nor hour, nor day—no ^segments, parts put in,
Put in Eidólons only. Lo! I or you, Or ^Woman, Man^of us, or State, known or unknown
While
^We
seeming solid ^beauty, wealth, or
strength ^or beauty
we build, we better build,
We
^But really
build Eidólons.
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10
[cut away]
or man, woman,
Its due Eidolon
Out of each shape of
life,
For
From
Of each corporeal
bodily
life,
Each atom ^duly
surely
gathered,—not a thought,
Emotion, deed, left out—issues at last,
to last. ItsThe
Its
due Eidolon.
The Its
^Its full
Eidolon
The ostent evanescent,
The ostent is the dream;
Known or unknown,
The
end
^summon
of all
the poet's
an artist's
moods, or
savan's studies long,The
Or
warrior's, martyr's, hero's
life
toils
To fashion his Eidolon.
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[cut away] what means it?
The savan—recks he [cut away]
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The old, old urge,
^To-day Based on the ancient, higher
pinnacles,;
rise
lo!
on
higher pinnacles
From Science & the modern ^still
impell'd
The old, old urge, Eidolons
The present now &
here
Of current hours, & days,
^To-day's Present
Americas, ^now & here,
a busy, ^teeming, intricate whirl,
Of aggregate & segregate, &
^duly
for over duly
thence releasing,
Present
To-day's
Eidolons
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Myriads &
The
noiseless
mystic
myriads!
The infinite oceans where the
rivers empty! Thevital free existences,
separate countless free
identities
like eyesight!
Spaces
Reality's
Mystic
Noiseless
Eidolons!
Not these
Not this the World,
Nor these the Universes—they the Universes,
Purport and end—ever the ^permanent life of life
Eidolons, Eidolons
Beyond thy lectures,
learn'd professor,
^Beyond Thy telescope, or microscope,
Thy chyemistry, savan—thy sur
Beyond the doctor's surgery, anatomy
Beyond thy
microscope or telescope telescope or spectroscope,
savan
—observer keen,
Beyond the doctor's surgery, anatomy—
beyond all chemistry,Real, as they, as all
Viewless
at least, ^
rReal
Identities—
The real entities—Eidolons.
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Of ^visible forms and
Forms [no handwritten text supplied here] disappear
Rocks, mountains, crumbling
lost in time, Eidolons everlasting. The object of the past [cut away] The [cut away] [begin leaf 5 recto]
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Tallies of Time
The vVaried, infinite
& Unfixed, yet fixed,
So
Ever
have been,
to be,—
ever
shall be,
have been,
and are,
Boundless
with
as
tTime &
tallying
filling
space,
Eidolons, Eidolons.
The prophet & the bard,
Sh
Yet,
Shall
yet maintain themselves—^—in higher stages yet or new or old,
Yet
Shall only
mediate
^to Democracy,
at the ^last—
^^to the Modern— to its interpret yet to them
God and Eidolons.
For
^And thee, for
thee, O Soul,
Joys, ceaseless exercises exaltations
Thy yearnings ^amply met
at last—^
thy
with
due prepared
mystic
companions, Thy ^prepared
mystic
mates, Eidolons.
While of thy varied songs,
No special strains thou sing'st—
—or this, or that, None for itself—but from the Whole
to rise and float^fore'er in space,
A round full-orb'd Eidolon.
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3
Eidólons.
I met a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of theworld, The
or limb, Nor hour, nor day—no ^segments, parts put in,
Put in Eidólons only. Lo! I or you, Or ^Woman, Man
strength ^
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10
[cut away]
or man, woman,
to last. Its
savan's studies long,
[cut away] what means it?
The savan—recks he [cut away]
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The old, old urge,
pinnacles
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6
rivers empty! The
beyond all chemistry,
Of ^visible forms and
Forms [no handwritten text supplied here] disappear
Rocks, mountains, crumbling
lost in time, Eidolons everlasting. The object of the past [cut away] The [cut away] [begin leaf 5 recto]
4
Tallies of Time
companions, Thy ^
—or this, or that, None for itself—but from the Whole
to rise and float
