 Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-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, and, behind the dim unknown,...  The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: Poems - Page 181by James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 342 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Education - 1900 - 1050 pages
...enthroned. Lowell says : — "Careless seems the great Avenger: history's pages but record One death grapple in the darkness, twixt old systems and the -word:...God, within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." And this is the faith that sustains us amidst the present commotions that threaten sometimes to unseat... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 pages
...death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne — Yet that scaffold sways the Future,...dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Plow of faith, how weak an arm may turn the iron helm of Fate : But the soul is still oracular ; amid... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1880 - 784 pages
...prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong. 'And further on : Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne : Yet that scaffold sways the future,...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... | |
 | John Morrison Davidson - Great Britain - 1880 - 274 pages
...death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word. Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the throne — Yet that scaffold sways the future,...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." The orthodox pastors, however, had gone a step too far. Public opinion strongly manifested itself against... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1880 - 204 pages
...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... | |
 | Education - 1918 - 756 pages
...wrote those lines : i ; "Right forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne ; Yet thiTscaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." It was the same view of history that the poet of Locksley Hall had in mind when he said: "Yet I doubt... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 736 pages
...forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne : Yet that scaffold sways the future ; And heliind the dim unknown Standeth God, within the shadow. Keeping watch above his o^'n." * * * I have instanced these examples to show that language consists more in the thought it... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Learning and scholarship - 1881 - 34 pages
...had given us another and nobler Washington. Lowell foresaw him when forty years ago he sang of, — " Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the...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 - Evolution - 1881 - 188 pages
...And ever the right comes uppermost, And ever is justice done." In a similar strain sings Lowell : — "Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the...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... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - Sermons, American - 1881 - 690 pages
...evil ever so often seem victor, though it seems sometimes that truth is forever on the scaffold and wrong forever on the throne, — "Yet that scaffold...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... | |
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