 ... 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 right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast...  The Poetical Works - Page 44by James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 472 pagesFull view - About this book
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...from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land ? Though the cause of evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast...beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. There is a passage quite as remarkable, and not, perhaps, quite so familiar to the present generation,... | |
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...Doom from its worn sandals shake its dust against our land? Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast...all wrong. Backward look across the ages, and the beacon-actions see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut through oblivion's sea; Not an ear... | |
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...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 shakes the...against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet't is Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops... | |
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...forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, 0 my people, on whose party thou shall stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the...against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful,... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1891 - 900 pages
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...fadeth not away. This is indeed a blessed life. It is heaven on earth. CHAPTER IV. SORROW SWEETENED. " Though the cause of evil prosper, yet 't is truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wanders outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful tall angels, to enshield her from... | |
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...forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the...against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful,... | |
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...chosen, O my people, on whose party dust against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around Backward look across the ages and the beaconmoments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut... | |
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