 | Malcolm MacColl - 1872 - 276 pagina’s
...found to be impossible ; there is " no place of repentance, though sought carefully with tears." " Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light." But many, probably most, of those who dislike the Athanasian Creed would admit all this in the case... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pagina’s
...there, Repeat thy father's creed, thy mother's prayer ! Oliver Wendell Holme». 583. CRISIS, A Nation's. sweetest fe@ . forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, О my people, on whose party thou shalt... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 pagina’s
...earthward, to be drunk up by the sod, Till a corpse crawls round unburied, delving in the nobler clod. For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears...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 shall... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - 1873 - 398 pagina’s
...a loftier fruition, sometimes, as Judaea, Rome, and Carthage, to a darker and more dreadful doom. " Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...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... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1904 - 596 pagina’s
...wrote also many fervid poems against slavery, including those ringing lines: "Once to every man anil nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of...and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever, "twixt that darkness and that light." Lowell welcomed the battle-scarred veterans when they... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pagina’s
...flesh, and of the spirit one. Sonrift xxxiv. Ed. 1844. Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. frent. 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 Present Crisis. Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1875 - 520 pagina’s
...cause, God's new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight : 15—2 338 The Prophet wit h tlie Cup Pass the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the...choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that lightThere is a terrible picture in the prophet Jeremiah, where the prophet is commanded to go with... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pagina’s
...earthward, to be drunk up by the sod, Till a corpse crawls round unburied, delving in the nobler clod. For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears...the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left baud, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pagina’s
...earthward, to be drunk up by the sod, Till a corpse crawls round unburied, delving in the nobler clod. For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears...or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, ottering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep ujion the right,... | |
 | 1913 - 416 pagina’s
...not, after all, bad fellows for the crew, as long as the Captain keeps the deck." — JT Trowbridge. " Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...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 spirit, till... | |
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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... 
