Meaning of “So teach us to number our days, that…”

Soliloquies in England, “War Shrines”; the sentence follows a contrast between strained worldliness and a more festive acceptance of life.

The Prophet, “On Work.”

Meditations, Book VII, in George Long’s translation.

Short poem commonly titled “Eternity”; Blake contrasts grasping with the passing movement of joy.

Meditations, Book VII, section 27, George Long translation.

Nature (first published 1836), Chapter VIII, “Prospects,” in James Munroe and Company’s 1849 new-edition witness represented by Project Gutenberg #29433. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common” appears near the essay’s close during Emerson’s discussion of prayer, study, facts and ideas. This collection retains 1836 as first-publication year while the evidence layer identifies the reviewed 1849 witness; the sentence remains Transcendentalist philosophical rhetoric rather than an experimentally established measure of wisdom.