 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...  Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons - Página 28por Theodore Parker - 1852Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1875 - 336 páginas
...with truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause hring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses,...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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 474 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...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... | |
 | 1876 - 564 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 1876 - 204 páginas
...with truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit and 'tis prosperous to be just. Then it is the brave man chooses,...morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; For in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 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...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 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...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... | |
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