 | Minot Judson Savage - 1880 - 204 pagina’s
...scaffold, wrong forever on the throne," yet, when we look more deeply, we are compelled to add : — " Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." And this is only the natural course of human history. The " God within the shadow " is only the power... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 690 pagina’s
...often seem victor, though it seems sometimes that truth is forever on the scaffold and wrong forever on the throne, — "Yet that scaffold sways the future,...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." JAG HUMANITAS REGNANS. With finger on lip and breath bated, With an eager and sad desire, The world... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1881 - 34 pagina’s
...Lowell foresaw him when forty years ago he sang of, — " Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne ; Yet that scaffold sways the future...God, within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own." And yet the book-men, as a class, have not yet acknowledged him. It is here that letters betray their... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 190 pagina’s
...justice done." In a similar strain sings Lowell : — " Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne ; Yet that scaffold sways the future,...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. It must always be so, until the world gets wise enough to know that all its best and highest thoughts... | |
 | L. U. Reavis - 1881 - 58 pagina’s
...confirmation of a great poetic truth: " Wrong forever on the throne ; Right forever on the scaftold ; But that scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim...God, within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own." On assuming the office of Chief Executive of the nation, Pres ident Lincoln was called upon, at once,... | |
 | 1881 - 696 pagina’s
...it seems sometimes that truth is forever on the scaffold and wrong forever on the throne, — " Vet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." JAG HUMANITAS REGNANS. With finger on lip and breath bated, With an easier and sad desire, The world... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pagina’s
...portal; Perhaps the longing to be so Helps make the soul immortal/* And the lofty faith of these lines: 'Careless seems the Great Avenger; history's pages...the darkness "twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne; But that scaffold sways the future, and behind... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1883 - 264 pagina’s
...against our land? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet .tis Truth alone is strong." And further on : " Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on...God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own." But, alas ! of exhortation and invective the world seemed weary. Men soon discovered that shams could... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1883 - 234 pagina’s
...against our land? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong." And further on : " Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on...God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own." But, alas ! of exhortation and invective the world seemed weary. Men soon discovered that shams could... | |
 | 1883 - 642 pagina’s
...grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future,...God within the shadow keeping watch above his own." Here is another stanza : "Then to side with truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her... | |
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. 
