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" Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne... "
The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation - Seite 198
von Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 656 Seiten
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The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 560 Seiten
...whose feet earth's chaff must fly; Never shows the choice momentous till the judgment hath passed by. One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems...watch above his own. We see dimly in the Present what ia small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn the iron helm of fate, But the soul...
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The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 562 Seiten
...whose feet earth's chaff must ' fly; Never shows the choice momentous till the judgment hath passed by. One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems...watch above his own. We see dimly in the Present what <a small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn the iron helm of fate, But the soul...
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Wendell Phillips: the Agitator

William Carlos Martyn - 1890 - 610 Seiten
...had given us another and nobler Washington. Lowell foresaw him when forty years ago he sang of, — " Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the...God, within the shadow, Keeping watch above His own." And yet the bookmen, as a class, have not yet acknowledged him. It is here that letters betray their...
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The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 562 Seiten
...pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth foiever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, —...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may We see dimly in the Present what -s turn...
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Seven Years in Ceylon: Stories of Mission Life

Mary Leitch, Margaret W. Leitch - 1890 - 190 Seiten
...in the darkness, Twixt old systems and the Word. Truth for ever on the scaffold — Wrong for ever on the throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future,...God within the shadow, Keeping watch above His own." If He is but watching over us and caring for the cause so dear to us, then we car* labour on in boundless...
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Poetical Works, Band 1

John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russel Lowell - 1891 - 560 Seiten
...forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, 0 my people, on whose party then shall stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the...that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknowo, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. We see dimly in the Present what...
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The Unitarian, Band 6

Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1891 - 616 Seiten
...Careless seems the great pages but record Avenger ; history's old One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold,...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit,...
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Helps in Teaching Reading: By Martha S. Hussey ...

Martha S. Hussey - 1891 - 158 Seiten
...tongue BOTH numbers I should say Thou LIEST unto thee, with a voice as free As I do pray the Gods. 9 Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the...God within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own. CHAPTER IX. FORCE. TTORCE may be defined as the amount of voice -*- necessary for the delivery of a...
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Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Wendell Phillips - 1891 - 508 Seiten
...given us another and nobler Washington. Lowell foresaw him when, forty years ago, he sang of, — " Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the...God, within the shadow, Keeping watch above His own." And yet the book-men, as a class, have not yet acknowledged him. It is here that letters betray their...
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The Dial, Band 13

Francis Fisher Browne - 1892 - 426 Seiten
...evoked in those days of shame. Is there anything grander than these lines in "The Present Crisis?" "Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages...within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.': Does one think this was written in the days of John Brown? No; it was fourteen years earlier, in the...
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