 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...  The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell - Pagina 163door James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 637 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1846 - 308 pagina’s
...abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. 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... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pagina’s
...spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. *"or Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr stands,...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pagina’s
...number how each generation learned One new word of that grand Credo which in prophethearts hath burned For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr...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'... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1852 - 272 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - 1852 - 428 pagina’s
...distrust their disinterestedness, none to question u_eir sanity, none to scoff at their testimony. ' 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 - 1852 - 456 pagina’s
...abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they once denied, For Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 pagina’s
...prophethearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far hi front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 pagina’s
...had denied. For Humanity sweeps onward ! Whcro to-day the martyr 'lands, On the morrow crouches Jndas with the silver in his hands; Far in front, the cross stands ready, and the crackling fagots bum, WTiile the booting mob of yesterday in silent awe return, To glean up the scattered ashes into... | |
 | 1855 - 784 pagina’s
...crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. For Humanity sweeps onward ! Wh^re to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver, in his band»; Far in front, the cross stands ready, and tho crackling fagote burn, While the hooting mob... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1856 - 114 pagina’s
...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...morrow crouches Judas, with the silver in his hands ; While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return, To glean up the scattered ashes into History's... | |
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