 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...ieels the gush of joy or shame; — In the gain or loss of one race, all the rest have equal claim. 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. Have ye chosen, O my people, on whose party ye shall stand,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race, all the rest have equal claim. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...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
...feels the gush of joy or shame; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals... | |
 | 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,...goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light. ' Have ye chosen, O my people, on whose party ye shall stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - Boston courier - 1852 - 270 pages
...feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. 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. Hast thou chosen, 0 my people, on whose party thou shall... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - Boston courier - 1852 - 272 pages
...feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 pages
...feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shall stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 274 pages
...feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shall stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals... | |
 | 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 to suppose... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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 the... 
