 | Thomas Hughes - 1866 - 442 pagina’s
...their dead selves to higher things.' TENNYSON CHAPTER I. HOW THE TIDE TURNED. " Once to every man aod nation, comes the moment to decide In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side: • ***•• Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1867 - 620 pagina’s
...standing with mute lips apart, And glad Truth's yet mightier man-child leaps beneath the Future's heart. For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears...of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Same great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1867 - 602 pagina’s
...or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious, yet humanity's vast frame, Through its ocean- sundered fibres, feels the gush of joy or shame ; In the gain...and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt... | |
 | 1879 - 692 pagina’s
...and The Present Crisis, are both noble poems. From the last of these I cannot help quoting : — " Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. " Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched... | |
 | Richard Miller] [Devens - 1867 - 706 pagina’s
...OFFICIAL GRAVITIES, JOKES, RAILLERY, PERPLEXITIES, BLUNDERS, RETORTS ; BURLESQUES, WITTICISMS, &c., &c. " Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to...strife of TRUTH with FALSEHOOD, for the good or evil sid«." " Keep step with the music of UNION, * The music our ancestors sung, mien states, like a jubilant... | |
 | 1869 - 474 pagina’s
...Sorrowfully we may apply to them the words of Lowell, whom we have quoted so often in this article: " Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide,...the sheep upon the right — And the choice goes by forever, 'Twixt that darkness and that light." The year 1868 came, and with its advancing months, it... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - 1870 - 356 pagina’s
...Judasa, Rome, and Carthage, to a darker and more dreadful doom. " Once to every man and nation conies the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with...by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light." We have only to suppose humanity to have passed onward into the spiritual realm, where artificial restraints... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 340 pagina’s
...unburied, delving in the nobler clod. For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along. Bound the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right...and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and mat light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt... | |
 | 1871 - 868 pagina’s
...the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right and wrong ; Whether conscious or uuconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean-sundered...the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and the light Hast thou chosen, О my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1871 - 236 pagina’s
...verge of manhood, as the energy sublime Of a century, bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn... | |
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon... 
