 For humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean...  The Mystic Star - Page 2801873Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. For Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...in front the Cross stands ready, and the crackling faggots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. *"or Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr stands,...in front the Cross stands ready, and the crackling faggots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...number how each generation learned One new word of that grand Credo which in prophethearts hath burned For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr...return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 'T is as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - Boston courier - 1852 - 272 pages
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History:s golden urn. 'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionists - 1852 - 428 pages
...distrust their disinterestedness, none to question u_eir sanity, none to scoff at their testimony. ' For Humanity sweeps onward; where to-day the martyr...in front the Cross stands ready, and the crackling faggots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1852 - 456 pages
...abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they once denied, For Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...in front the cross stands ready, and the crackling iagots burn, While the hooting :nob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 pages
...prophethearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far hi front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 pages
...had denied. For Humanity sweeps onward ! Whcro to-day the martyr 'lands, On the morrow crouches Jndas with the silver in his hands; Far in front, the cross stands ready, and the crackling fagots bum, WTiile the booting mob of yesterday in silent awe return, To glean up the scattered ashes into... | |
 | 1855 - 784 pages
...crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. For Humanity sweeps onward ! Wh^re to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver, in his band»; Far in front, the cross stands ready, and tho crackling fagote burn, While the hooting mob... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - Slavery - 1856 - 190 pages
...of death comes life, and the " traitor " whom he blindly executes will live immortal in the cause. " For Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...morrow crouches Judas, with the silver in his hands; While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return, To glean up the scattered ashes into History's... | |
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