 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - Immortality - 1870 - 356 pages
...Judasa, Rome, and Carthage, to a darker and more dreadful doom. " Once to every man and nation conies the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with...and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light." We have only to suppose humanity to have passed onward... | |
 | 1871 - 868 pages
...fibres 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 for ever 'twixt that darkness and the light Hast thou chosen, О my people, on whose party thou shalt... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...the soul within him climb To the awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublime Of a century, bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time. Once to...God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1871 - 432 pages
...209 CHAPTER I. HOW THE TIDE TDENED. M Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, Jn the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side : ****** Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Douhting in his abject spirit,... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...there, Repeat thy father's creed, thy mother's prayer ! Oliver Wendell Holme». 583. CRISIS, A Nation's. sweetest fe@ . that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, О my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - 1872 - 276 pages
...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,...the sheep upon the right ; And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light." But many, probably most, of those who dislike the Athanasian... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 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 right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shall stand, Ere the... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - Immortality - 1873 - 398 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,...and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light," We have only to suppose humanity to have passed onward... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1904 - 596 pages
...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...the right; And the choice goes by forever, "twixt that darkness and that light." Lowell welcomed the battle-scarred veterans when they returned from... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1873 - 742 pages
...IVuPLEXITIES, BLUNDERS, RETORTS ; BURLESQUES, WITTICISMS, &c., &c. till " Once to crery man and nation, cornea the moment to decide In the strife of" TRUTH with FALSEHOOD, for the good or eril i I j." 11 Keep step with the music of UNION, The music our ancestors sung, When state*, like... | |
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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... 
