For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean... Poems - Página 60por James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 184 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Charles E. Tomlinson - 1925 - 102 páginas
...and the sheep upon the right. And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light. For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. The Prophet of the Western Republic. There is no space now to quote more than a couple of verses from... | |
| Mabel Hardy Pollitt - 1925 - 438 páginas
...now regard them as interesting only as landmarks in the onward course to a higher and a better life, "For humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr...morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return, To glean up the scattered ashes into History's... | |
| United States. Congress - 1927 - 252 páginas
...justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design. For Humanity sweeps onward; where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. LA FOLLETTE on more than one occasion referred to the mounting corruption in government as a " cancer."... | |
| Charles Whitney Gilkey - 1928 - 200 páginas
...justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design. For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into history's golden urn." 1 The lesson of social history that appears so plainly in this long retrospect does not lack for more... | |
| Charles Whitney Gilkey - 1928 - 200 páginas
...justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design. For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr...glean up the scattered ashes into history's golden urn."1 The lesson of social history that appears so plainly in this long retrospect does not lack for... | |
| Caroline Miles Hill - 1928 - 888 páginas
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to Heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in the silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into history's golden urn. THE PRESENT ADELAIDE... | |
| 1899 - 802 páginas
...was in the true line of succession of the prophets of all ages. Now as in the seventeenth century — Far in front the cross stands ready, and the crackling...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. rhe "We see dimly in the present what is Perspective small arid what is great.'' A bluebottle of the... | |
| 1913 - 624 páginas
...prophethearts hath burned, Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For humanity sweeps onward; where to-day the martyr...cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers' graves.... | |
| 1960 - 262 páginas
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to Heaven upturned. For humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. — I.IMIO Russell Lowell YOUR PLACE Is your place a small place? Tend it with care! — He set you... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1897 - 526 páginas
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr...silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History s golden urn. T is as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved... | |
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