 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the Cross stands ready, and the crackling faggots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...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...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 'T is as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionists - 1852 - 428 pages
...with the silver in his hands; Far in front the Cross stands ready, and the crackling faggots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 4 Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - Boston courier - 1852 - 272 pages
...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 up the scattered ashes into History:s golden urn. 'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1852 - 456 pages
...hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready, and the crackling iagots burn, While the hooting :nob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn." Do you not see that if a man have a new truth, it must be reformatory and so create an outcry? It will... | |
 | 1855 - 784 pages
...with the silver, in his band»; Far in front, the cross stands ready, and tho crackling fagote burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return,...glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn ! Well ! we cry, Heaven disposes all things ; but, certes, this is not the Holmes wo wotted of an hour... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 736 pages
...in history that a scaffold erected for punishment has become a pedestal of honor. Out of death comes life, and the " traitor" whom he blindly executes...with all the prejudices of the Senator from South Caro58* lina, but without his generous impulses, who, on account of his character before the country,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - History - 1856 - 34 pages
...with the silver in his For Humanity sweeps onward; where to-day the martyr hfu.ds; WVhile the hooiiftg mob of yesterday in silent awe return, To glean up the scattered ashas into II story's golden urn. Among these hostile Senators, there ia yet another, with all the... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - Free thought - 1857 - 354 pages
...Judas, with the silver in his hands; For in front the cross stands ready, and the cracking fagots barn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.' (Q'trtrd in Parker's Serrrtoii on The True Idea of a Chrutta* Chunk.) " As much freedom as you shut... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...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 '...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
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For humanity sweeps onward: where today 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 up... 
