... 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 the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast... The Poetical Works - 44. oldalszerző: James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 472 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 530 oldal
...forever 'twiit that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land ? Thongh the cause of Evil prosper, yet 't is Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast... | |
| 1896 - 372 oldal
...chooses, While the coward stands aside, Till the multitude make virtue Of the faith they had denied. Though the cause of Evil prosper, Yet 't is Truth alone is strong ; Though her portion be the scaffold, And upon the throne be Wrong, — Yet that scaffold sways the... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 528 oldal
...forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our laud ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 't is Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1897 - 580 oldal
..."twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, 0 my people, on whose party thou shall stand, Era the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against...enshield her from all wrong. Backward look across the agee and the beacon -moments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut through Oblivion's sea... | |
| Francis Nathan Peloubet - 1897 - 488 oldal
...Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast...beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong." — Lowell. DEFEATS THAT ARE VICTORIES. — (i) Bunker Hill Monument commemorates a defeat, which for... | |
| Mrs. Mary Harriet Bright Curry - 1897 - 412 oldal
...forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the...against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 538 oldal
...forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the...beacon-moments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut through Oblivion's sea; Not an ear in court or market for the low foreboding cry Of... | |
| Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 oldal
...be quoted by those who are leading toward better things. Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast...beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. iii******* Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways... | |
| 1898 - 366 oldal
...army of martyrs" are better off in the long run than the man with the muck-rake. " 'Tls Truth alono la strong. And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see...around her throng Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshleld her from all wrong." Believes, however, that if that manly correspondent is alive in the twentieth... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1899 - 686 oldal
...forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the...beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. 30 Backward look across the ages and the beacon-moments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent,... | |
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