{"id":2580,"date":"2021-05-17T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/tennyson-strikes-a-chord\/"},"modified":"2021-05-17T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:39:50","slug":"tennyson-strikes-a-chord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/tennyson-strikes-a-chord\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennyson Strikes a Chord"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bolded passage below is a beautiful poetic summation of  my philosophical position.<\/span><\/p>\n

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IF thou would\u2019st hear the Nameless, and wilt dive <\/span>
Into the Temple-cave of thine own self, <\/span>
There, brooding by the central altar, thou <\/span>
May\u2019st haply learn the Nameless hath a voice, <\/span>
By which thou wilt abide, if thou be wise, 5<\/span>
As if thou knewest, tho\u2019 thou canst not know; <\/span>
For Knowledge is the swallow on the lake <\/span>
That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there <\/span>
But never yet hath dipt into the abysm, <\/span>
The Abysm of all Abysms, beneath, within 10<\/span>
The blue of sky and sea, the green of earth, <\/span>
And in the million-millionth of a grain <\/span>
Which cleft and cleft again for evermore, <\/span>
And ever vanishing, never vanishes, <\/span>
To me, my son, more mystic than myself, 15<\/span>
Or even than the Nameless is to me. <\/span>
And when thou sendest thy free soul thro\u2019 heaven, <\/span>
Nor understandest bound nor boundlessness, <\/span>
Thou seest the Nameless of the hundred names. <\/span>
And if the Nameless should withdraw from all 20<\/span>
Thy frailty counts most real, all thy world <\/span>
Might vanish like thy shadow in the dark. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018And since\u2014from when this earth began\u2014 <\/span>
The Nameless never came <\/span>
Among us, never spake with man, 25<\/span>
And never named the Name\u2019\u2014 <\/span><\/p>\n

Thou canst not prove the Nameless, O my son, <\/span>
Nor canst thou prove the world thou movest in, <\/span>
Thou canst not prove that thou art body alone, <\/span>
Nor canst thou prove that thou art spirit alone, 30<\/span>
Nor canst thou prove that thou art both in one: <\/span>
Thou canst not prove thou art immortal, no <\/span>
Nor yet that thou art mortal\u2014nay my son, <\/span>
Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, <\/span>
Am not thyself in converse with thyself, 35<\/span>
For nothing worthy proving can be proven, <\/span><\/strong>
Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise, <\/span><\/strong>
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, <\/span><\/strong>
And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith <\/span><\/strong>
She reels not in the storm of warring words, 40<\/span>
She brightens at the clash of \u2018Yes\u2019 and \u2018No\u2019, <\/span>
She sees the Best that glimmers thro\u2019 the Worst, <\/span>
She feels the Sun is hid but for a night, <\/span>
She spies the summer thro\u2019 the winter bud, <\/span>
She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls, 45<\/span>
She hears the lark within the songless egg, <\/span>
She finds the fountain where they wail\u2019d \u2018Mirage\u2019!<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ancient Sage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bolded passage below is a beautiful poetic summation of  my philosophical position. IF thou would\u2019st hear the Nameless, and wilt dive Into the Temple-cave of thine own self, There, brooding by the central altar, thou May\u2019st haply learn the Nameless hath a voice, By which thou wilt abide, if thou be wise, 5As if … Continue reading “Tennyson Strikes a Chord”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aporetics","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}