 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...  Familiar Quotations ... - Page 593by John Bartlett - 1875 - 864 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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
...verge of manhood, as the energy sublime Of a century, bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...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... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...there, Repeat thy father's creed, thy mother's prayer ! Oliver Wendell Holme». 583. CRISIS, A Nation's. sweetest fe@ . Hast thou chosen, О my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals... | |
 | 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,...goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shall stand, Ere the Doum from its worn sandals... | |
 | 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...by forever, "twixt that darkness and that light." Lowell welcomed the battle-scarred veterans when they returned from the front, and his song lives on... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 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,...the sheep upon the right,— And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light ! Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1876 - 450 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,...the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left baud, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 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,...or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, ottering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep ujion the right,... | |
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