...2). 130.24-27 / "Wrought . . . grew.": Thoreau adapts the second stanza of Emerson's "The Problem": The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew — The conscious...

...him alure, Which I could not on me endure? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought; Never from lips of cunning fell The...burdens of the Bible old; the litanies of nations came, 72 Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and...

...stimulate the spiritual activity of the Christian soul. Emerson's poetical tribute to Michelangelo: "The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Borne, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew:...

...these grand lines from the "Problem:" "Out of the heart of nature roll'd The burdens of the Bibles old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's...tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below." I had just withdrawn from the Presbyterian ministry, on account of doubts and a tendency to liberal...