...the very "souls that stood alone While the men they agonized for hurled the cotumelious stone." But, "Humanity sweeps onward: Where today the martyr stands,...hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the cracking fagots burn. While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered...

...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...in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn. While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes...