 | 1886 - 786 pagini
...faintest stir? History and experience abundantly confirm the poet's thought : — " New occasions teach new duties ; time makes Ancient good uncouth ; They...must upward still and onward who Would keep abreast of truth." It is not unreasonable, therefore, to inquire whether seventy-six years of foreign missionary... | |
 | 1825 - 398 pagini
...comes in tones which I cannot mistake. I catch its words of noble cheer : — uNew occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth : Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower,... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pagini
...Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the Cross stands ready, and the crackling faggots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 'TU as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers' graves:... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pagini
...denied. *"or 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 faggots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pagini
...burned 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...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 our fathers'... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1852 - 272 pagini
...upturned. 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1852 - 270 pagini
...the funeral lamps away To light up the manyr-fagots round the prophets of to-day? New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They...must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1852 - 456 pagini
...denied, 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 iagots burn, While the hooting :nob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - 1852 - 428 pagini
...testimony. ' 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 faggots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 pagini
...where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far hi front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots...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 our fathers'... | |
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New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! 
