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 Seymour Robinson - 1884 - 328 páginas
...chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit till his Lord is crucified ; For Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...morrow crouches Judas, with the silver in his hands. It is ours to save our brethren, ours with peace and love to win Their darkened heart from error, ere... | |
| Joseph H. Head - 1884 - 498 páginas
...with his face to heaven upturned. For humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr stands, On tho morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and tho crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return Tis as CMSy to be... | |
| Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - 266 páginas
...and how weary the waiting, at last, — " Ever the truth comes uppermost and ever is justice done. For humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...in front the cross stands ready, and the crackling While that hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To gather up the scattered ashes into history's... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1886 - 752 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...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
| 1887 - 920 páginas
...Christ's bleeding feet; I track, Toiling up new Calvaries ever with the cross that turns not back. "For humanity sweeps onward; where to-day the martyr...in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagote burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
| Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Minnesota Commandery - 1887 - 430 páginas
...and awful time, In an age on ages telling, when existence is sublime. For humanity sweeps onward I Where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches...stands ready, and the crackling fagots burn, While the howling mobs of yesterday in speechless awe return, To glean up the scattered fragments into history's... | |
| 1884 - 458 páginas
...— " But humanity sweeps onward — 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." Happily we meet your Lordship in the flesh, and we are not called to gather up your Lordship's venerated... | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper - 1887 - 1030 páginas
...to wait, and, in the spirit of a Lowell, found their faith in the future, as when he says : — But humanity sweeps onward ! where to-day the martyr stands,...morrow crouches Judas with the silver In his hands. Far iu front the cross stands ready, and the crackling fragments burn, Wlille the hooting mob of yesterday... | |
| Alexander Johnston - 1887 - 332 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...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1889 - 248 páginas
...prophethearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. XIV. For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. TO xv. 'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
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