 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1850 - 408 pages
...light, a blackness in the air? Where for words of hope they listened, the long wail of despair ? The Crisis presses on us ; face to face with us it stands,...the dews of blessing or the bolts of cursing down ! By all for which the martyrs bore their agony and shame ; By all the warning words of truth with... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1855 - 436 pages
...light, a blackness in the air? Where for words of hope they listened, the long wail of despair ? The Crisis presses on us; face to face with us it stands,...the dews of blessing or the bolts of cursing down ! By all for which the martyrs bore their agony and shame ; By all the warning words of truth with... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1856 - 470 pages
...light, a blackness in the air? Where for words of hope they listened, the long wail of despair ? The Crisis presses on us; face to face with us it stands,...Egypt's sands! This day we fashion Destiny^ our web of-Fate we spin ; This day for all hereafter choose we .holiness or sin ; Even now from starry Gerizim,... | |
 | Baptists - 1861 - 392 pages
...worda of hope they listened, the long wail of despair? The Crisis presses on us, face to face with ns it stands, With solemn lips of question, like the sphinx in Egypt's saiuU 1 This day we fashion Deatlny, our web of Fate we spin ; This day for all hereafter choose we... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 360 pages
...light, a blackness in the air ? Where for words of hope they listened, the long wall of despair ? The Crisis presses on us ; face to face with us it stands,...the dews of blessing or the bolts of cursing down ! By all for which the martyrs bore their agony and shame ; By all the warning words of truth with... | |
 | Frank Moore - Political ballads and songs - 1864 - 390 pages
...in the Brahmin's breast Abode God's peace, and he was blest. THE CRISIS. BY JOHN G. WHITTIER. fTIHE crisis presses on us ; face to face with us it stands,...the dews of blessing, or the bolts of cursing down ! By all for which the martyrs bore their agony and shame ; By all the warning words of truth with... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1866 - 122 pages
...light, a blackness in the air ? Where for words of hope they listened, the long wail of despair ? The Crisis presses on us ; face to face with us it stands,...the dews of blessing or the bolts of cursing down ! By all for which the martyrs bore their agony and shame ; By all the warning words of truth with... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 410 pages
...looked for light, a blackness Where for words of hope they listened, the long wail of despair ? The Crisis presses on us ; face to face with us it stands,...the dews of blessing or the bolts of cursing down 1 By all for which the martyrs bore their agony and shame ; By all the warning words of truth with... | |
 | American poetry - 1869 - 310 pages
...light, a blackness in the air ? Where for words of hope they listened, the long wail of despair ? The Crisis presses on us ; face to face with us it stands,...the dews of blessing or the bolts of cursing down ! By all for which the martyrs bore their agony and shame ; By all the warning words of truth with... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1869 - 406 pages
...rolls in light, shall ours in Where for words of hope they listened, the long wail of despair ? The Crisis presses on us; face to face with us it stands,...sands! This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we This day for all hereafter choose we holiness or sin; Even now from starry Gerizim, or Ebal's cloudy... | |
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Egypt's sands! This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we spin ; This day for all hereafter choose we holiness or sin ; Even now from starry Gerizim, or Ebal's cloudy crown, We call the dews of blessing or the bolts of cursing down... 
