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" ... 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 of James Russel Lowell - Page 68
by James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 406 pages
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The Living Age, Volume 191

1891 - 850 pages
...to the effect of such verses as these : — 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. There is a passage quite as remarkable, and not, perhaps, quite so familiar to the present generation,...
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Voices of the True-hearted

1846 - 308 pages
...Doom from its worn sandals shake its dust against our land? Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast...all wrong. Backward look across the ages, and the beacon-actions see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut through oblivion's sea; Not an ear...
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Poems

James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness 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't is Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops...
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Poems, Volume 2

James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pages
...choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness 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 't is Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of...
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Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life, Volume 2

Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1852 - 270 pages
...forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, 0 my people, on whose party thou shall stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the...from all wrong. Backward look across the ages and the beacon-moments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut through Oblivion's sea ; Not an ear...
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Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an ...

William Lloyd Garrison - 1852 - 428 pages
...Doom from its worn sandals shakes its dust against our land? Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast...beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.' Of all the reformers who have appeared in the world— whether they were prophets, the Son of God,...
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Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends

Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pages
...Temporarily, "Though the cause of Evil prosper, yel The truth alone is strong. And, albeit, she tvanders outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to Enshield her from all wrong." The contemners of Aguinaldo would have been the de~ nouncers of John Brown in the dark days preceding...
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Benedictions: Or, The Blessed Life

John Cumming - 1854 - 322 pages
...SWEETENED. " Though the cause of evil prosper, yet 't is truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wanders outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong." " It hath caught a touch of sadness, Yet it is not sad : It hath tones of clearest gladness, Yet it...
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Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of ...

James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 pages
...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...from all wrong. Backward look across the ages and the beaconmoments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut through Oblivion's sea ; Not an ear...
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes

James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party dust against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper,...strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around Backward look across the ages and the beaconmoments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut...
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