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
| 1891 - 884 páginas
...sweeps onward: where to-dny the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with tho silver in hie hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. This is strong teaching ; not of any sentimental and emasculate Christianity, but surely befitting... | |
| 1891 - 624 páginas
...Some of its lines have grown into the memory of almost all of this generation or of the last:— " For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hand : Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn While the hooting mob of yesterday... | |
| 1915 - 100 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 today the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. New Occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward,... | |
| Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 524 páginas
...long and weary the waiting, at last, — "Ever the truth comes uppermost, And ever is justice done. For Humanity sweeps onward: Where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes Into History's golden urn." In such a land he is doubly and trebly guilty who, except in some most extreme case, disturbs the sober... | |
| James Albert Winans - 1915 - 504 páginas
...long and weary the waiting, at last, — " 'Ever the truth comes uppermost, And ever is justice done. For humanity sweeps onward: Where to-day the martyr...morrow crouches Judas With the silver in his hands.' " Not all attempts at reform arouse mob violence, but all do provoke some degree of resistance and... | |
| James Albert Winans - 1915 - 538 páginas
...long and weary the waiting, at last, — " 'Ever the truth comes uppermost, And ever is justice done. For humanity sweeps onward: Where to-day the martyr...morrow crouches Judas With the silver in his hands.' " Not all attempts at reform arouse mob violence, but all do provoke some degree of resistance and... | |
| Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1916 - 522 páginas
...abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward,... | |
| Northern Oratorical League - 1916 - 366 páginas
...did goes marching on; and in the great summing up of things, what matters it that the body suffered ? "For humanity sweeps onward, where to-day the martyr...glean up the scattered ashes into history's golden um." AN EXPONENT OF CULTURE FOR COMMON HUMANITY FRANK J. MILNES FIRST HONOR oration in 1903. The League... | |
| Oscar William Coursey - 1916 - 376 páginas
...auaint and old; renowned today perhaps only for the history it brings to mind as the traveler passes by: "For humanity sweeps onward; Where today the martyr...front the cross stands ready And the crackling fagots bum, While the hooting mobs of yesterday In silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes Into... | |
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