...With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul...the same power that reared the shrine, Bestrode the stibes that knelt within. Ever the fiery Pentecost 73 Girds with one flame the countless host, Trances...

...stone he had selected, and engraved with the following epitaph, taken from his poem, "The Problem ": The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. I believe in Omnipresence and find footsteps in grammar rules, in oyster shops, in church liturgies,...

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...erected a great boulder of unshaped rose quartz, fixed with a simple plaque that bore the epitaph: This passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. Shortly after Emerson's death in 1882, James Elliot Cabot wrote in his Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson...