| Wendell Phillips - 1881 - 34 pages
...forty years ago he sang of, — " Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne ; Yet that scaffold sways the future : And behind the dim...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... | |
| 1881 - 696 pages
...it seems sometimes that truth is forever on the scaffold and wrong forever on the throne, — " Vet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." JAG HUMANITAS REGNANS. With finger on lip and breath bated, With an easier and sad desire, The world... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 190 pages
...similar strain sings Lowell : — " Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne ; Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. It must always be so, until the world gets wise enough to know that all its best and highest thoughts... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 690 pages
...it seems sometimes that truth is forever on the scaffold and wrong forever on the throne, — "Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." JAG HUMANITAS REGNANS. With finger on lip and breath bated, With an eager and sad desire, The world... | |
| Joseph Cook - 187? - 170 pages
...record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word ; But tiie yet-veiled rules the future, and behind the dim Unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." * * Lowell, "The Present Crisis." IS CONSCIENCE INFALLIBLE? THERE is a celebrated oration by Massillon,... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...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...within the shadow, keeping watch above His own!'* Nowhere has Lowell appeared to us personally so attractive as in his sonnets, which he calls 'the firstlings... | |
| 1882 - 408 pages
...formulated we can only say, not always shall Truth be ever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne; For that scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim...unknown Standeth God within the shadow, Keeping watch upon His own. Ellen B. Ferguson. THE people of Utah are sailing amid troubled waters. What was once... | |
| 1882 - 1434 pages
...Prudentum. To a close-shorn sheep, God gives wind by the measure. _;. HERBERT— Jacula Prudentum. nd fc. LOWELL— The I'resent Crisis. St. 8. What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support;... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 496 pages
...scaffold, Wrong forever on the tbrone, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, bebind the dlm unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. We see dlmly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith, how weak an arm may turn the... | |
| 1886 - 508 pages
...Avenger; History's pages but record One death struggle in the darkness 'twixt false systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the...God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own." The other view can only give us history as a disconnected series of events, a mighty maze without a... | |
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