(painted by Edward Hicks in 1849)<\/p>\n
for Don and Jane<\/p>\n
By recreating his beautiful animal dream he was able to forget the Mostly they recall nothing. The bear just -Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n\n (painted by Edward Hicks in 1849) for Don and Jane By recreating his beautiful animal dream he was able to forget the elusiveness of his ideal in the world, to erase his despair. If individ- ual men could not transcend their weaknesses and live happily to- gether, the animals he imagined could. \u2014 \u201cAnimals in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4108,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4011\/revisions\/4108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nelusiveness of his ideal in the world, to erase his despair. If individ-
\nual men could not transcend their weaknesses and live happily to-
\ngether, the animals he imagined could.<\/em>
\n\u2014 \u201cAnimals in American Art: Edward Hicks\u201d<\/p>\n
\nnudges the cow and feels foolish
\nto be wearing claws and the young lion
\ncontinues on his way with the child. Still
\nthere are times the leopard remembers.
\nBehind his tranquil eyes he sees
\nhimself running somewhere out of his body.
\nAnd there are times the world lifting his fine
\nbrown head can hear a scream
\nthat seems to come from his own throat. Yet
\nit is quiet here and in the light
\nbeyond them Penn rises with Indians
\nas if he were their thought. Nearby the ox
\nthe old lion forgets that he is doomed
\nto browse the luminous hay forever.<\/p>\n