 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...winnowers, from whose feet earth's chaff must fly; Never shows the choice momentous till the judgment Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages...the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and,... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionists - 1852 - 428 pages
...mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 4 Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages...the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever oh the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and,... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 388 pages
...sake. Amen. CHAPTER XIII. THE SARACENS AND HAGARENES. " Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne ; Yet that scaffold sways the future,...God within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own." " For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free-woman. But... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - Christian sociology - 1860 - 330 pages
...powers that be are ordained of God. Right is held up, and borne on, to her slow but patient victory. " Careless seems the Great Avenger ; History's pages...God, within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." 2. So with Truth. Veracity is a social virtue. Society nurtures it, tries it, manifests it. In solitude,... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - Christian sociology - 1860 - 326 pages
...powers that be are ordained of God. Right is held up, and borne on, to her slow but patient victory. " Careless seems the Great Avenger ; History's pages...on the Scaffold, — Wrong forever on the Throne, — ' O / Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim Unknown, Standeth God, within the... | |
 | Joseph Angus - Christian sociology - 1862 - 242 pages
...diath-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word : Truth for ever on the scaffold, wrong for ever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the Future,...God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.' During the reign of terror that followed ( Black Bartholomew,' Congregationalism won some of its noblest... | |
 | Women - 480 pages
...who strive and suffer for the progress of humanity. " Truth for ever on the scaffold, -wrong for ever on the throne, — • Yet that scaffold sways the...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." The Strawberry Girl, with other thoughts and fancies, in verse. By HM Rathbone, Authoress of ' The... | |
 | 1866 - 882 pages
...historic riddle for us. "Careless seems the great avenger; history's pages bat record One death grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth...scaffold sways the Future, and behind the dim unknown Etandeth God within the shadow keeping watch above his own." THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. ВТ AUGUSTA... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 484 pages
...small : Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. Careless seems the Great Avenger; history's pages...forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne ; But that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping... | |
 | 1871 - 868 pages
...death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the word ; Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne,— Yet that scaffold sways the Future,...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. To walk in the light of the glory above, And to share in the peace, and the joy,... | |
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Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne... 
