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
 | Theodore Parker - 1871 - 440 páginas
...abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they once denied ; For Humanity sweeps onward; where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn." Do you not see that if a man have a new truth, it must be reformatory and so create an outcry? It will... | |
 | 1872 - 710 páginas
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. . bum, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's... | |
 | Joseph O. Barrett - 1872 - 308 páginas
...fraternity of the l great unchurched.'' May his shadow lengthen, and his heresy strengthen ! Amen. " i Humanity sweeps onward ! where to-day the martyr stands,...in front the cross stands ready, and the crackling fragments burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return, To glean up the scattered... | |
 | 1873 - 354 páginas
...innovating reformer's portion ; but after generations learned his worth and revere received his memory. " For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's sacred urn." Then alone the man who gathers as he passes along a harvest of dollars and cents, lies... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - 1873 - 744 páginas
...vindication who in life would never stoop to vindicate himself, and to them we may safely trust his fame. " ' For Humanity sweeps onward. Where to-day the martyr...morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands, And the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe returns To gather up the scattered ashes into History's... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1874 - 360 páginas
...overleaps itself a little, and lands on the edge of extravagance. The finest stanza in the poem is this: For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr...in front the cross stands ready and the crackling faggots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1874 - 360 páginas
...Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling faggots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. It was quoted by Mr. Sumuer in that celebrated speech of his in the Senate, on " The Crime against... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 476 páginas
...of death comes life, and the "traitor" whom he blindly executes will live immortal in the cause. " For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn." l Among these hostile Senators is yet another, with all the prejudices of the Senator from South Carolina,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1875 - 336 páginas
...abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they once denied ; For Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn." Do you not see that if a man have a new truth, it must be reformatory and so create an outcry ? It... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 464 páginas
...of death comes life, and the "traitor" whom he blindly executes will live immortal in the cause. " For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn." * Among these hostile Senators is yet another, with all the prejudices of the Senator from South Carolina,... | |
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