 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 the...  Poetical Works - Page 68by John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russel Lowell - 1891 - 522 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...Whether conscious or unconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean sundered fibres ieels the gush of joy or shame; — In the gain or loss...Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Have ye chosen,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...right 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...God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Farts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twbrt... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...tear-drops ebbing earthward, to be drunk up by the sod, Till a corpse crawls round unburied, delving in the For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears...Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness Hast thou chosen, O my people,... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - Boston courier - 1852 - 272 pages
...In hot tear-drops ebbing earthward, to be drunk up by the sod, Till a corpse crawls round unburied, delving in the nobler clod. For mankind are one in...of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; S«me great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionists - 1852 - 428 pages
...chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct ? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know ? ' ' Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light. ' Have ye chosen,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 pages
...In hot tear-drops ebbing earthward, to be drunk up by the sod, Till a corpse crawls round unburicd, delving in the nobler clod. For mankind are one in...Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen,... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - Immortality - 1870 - 366 pages
...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,...Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon tho right, And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light." We have only... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - Boarding schools - 1857 - 446 pages
...to higher things." TENNYSON. CHAPTER I. HOW THE TIDE TURNED. " Once to every man and nation, cornea 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 spirit,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...In hot tear-drops ebbing earthward, to be drunk up by the sod, Till a corpse crawls round unburied, delving in the nobler clod. For mankind are one in...Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen,... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - Holy Spirit - 1858 - 364 pages
...a loftier fruition, sometimes, as Judasa, Rome, and Carthage, to a darker and more dreadful doom. " Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by for ever 'tvvixt that darkness and that light." We have only... | |
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