...silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were To store and hoard myself yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. * * # # It may be that the gulfs will wash us down, It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles. " And...

...vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire 50 To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me,...

...; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle, — Well-loved of me,...

...; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me,...

...rock to which he is chained ; and the sternest and saddest of all those " Grey spirits, yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought," might have spoken to Heaven the words that follow. " Then said I unto him, " It were better that we...

...Ulysses, the poem symbolizes the passionate desire felt by all noble souls " to seek a newer world " — "To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.'1] It little profits that, an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched...

...home, grown old, restless, complaining. Yet now the gray spirit is ready to forsake hearth and home "To follow knowledge like a sinking star, / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." As if to justify fleeing the responsibilities of Ithaca, "these barren crags," he announces this time...

...peace of soul and an abiding faith." 56 He did not believe in "following the logos" nor in following "knowledge like a sinking star beyond the utmost bound of human thought." The thing of supreme urgency was not knowledge but the happiness of mankind. He called his teachings...

...Tennyson explores the human condition. Look at this second extract: And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. There is an ambiguity in these lines that could reinforce the idea that man must struggle, but even...

...0987654321 To Greg Bear, Gregory BenFord, and David Brin, Killer Bees and cosmic craftsmen PART ONE To Follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound oF human thought. -ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON oo I he story is of a man, a woman, and a world. But ghosts pass through it,...