 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 340 oldal
...unburied, delving in the nobler clod. For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along. Bound the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right...the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and mat light.... | |
 | 1871 - 868 oldal
...the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right and wrong ; Whether conscious or uuconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean-sundered...the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and the light... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1871 - 236 oldal
...verge of manhood, as the energy sublime Of a century, bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1871 - 432 oldal
...209 CHAPTER I. HOW THE TIDE TDENED. M Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, Jn the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side : ****** Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Douhting in his abject spirit,... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - 1872 - 276 oldal
...found to be impossible ; there is " no place of repentance, though sought carefully with tears." " Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right ; And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light."... | |
 | 1872 - 710 oldal
...there, Repeat thy father's creed, thy mother's prayer ! Oliver Wendell Holme». 583. CRISIS, A Nation's. sweetest fe@ . hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 oldal
...apart, And glad Truth's yet mightier man. child leaps beneath the Future's heart. So the Evil's triumph sendeth, with a terror and a chill, Under continent...the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - 1873 - 398 oldal
...a loftier fruition, sometimes, as Judaea, Rome, and Carthage, to a darker and more dreadful doom. " Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light,"... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1904 - 596 oldal
...wrote also many fervid poems against slavery, including those ringing lines: "Once to every man anil nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of...the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever, "twixt that darkness and that light."... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1873 - 742 oldal
...IVuPLEXITIES, BLUNDERS, RETORTS ; BURLESQUES, WITTICISMS, &c., &c. till " Once to crery man and nation, cornea the moment to decide In the strife of" TRUTH with FALSEHOOD, for the good or eril i I j." 11 Keep step with the music of UNION, The music our ancestors sung, When state*, like... | |
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon... 
