 | Universalist Church of America. General Convention. Providence, 1858 - 1859 - 284 pages
...abject spirit, till his Lord be crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they once denied. For humanity sweeps onward, where to-day the martyr...morrow crouches Judas, with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready, and the crackling fagots burn, And the hooting mob of yesterday... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...first forewarning, And they who sowed the light, shall reap The golden sheaves of morning. LOWELL. For humanity sweeps onward; where to-day the martyr...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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1861 - 432 pages
...spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they once denied ; Tor Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr stands,...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...prophet-hearts hath burned Bince the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...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... | |
 | William Turner Coggeshall - 1865 - 342 pages
...many more, who do him reverence to-day, would have spurned his person and teachings with contempt, ' For humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands — Far in front tue cross stands ready, and the crackling fagots burn — And the hooting mob of yesterday... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1865 - 438 pages
...and intelligence, which we call our Age. Out of this the pen of unerring history compiles its annals. "For Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr...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... | |
 | 1879 - 692 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...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... | |
 | 1868 - 416 pages
...steadfast souls were of that noble guild whose storm- tossed lives inspire ' the poet to write : — " For humanity sweeps onward ; where today the martyr stands^ On the morrow crouches Judas, with the money in his hands ; And the hooting mobs of yesterday, in silent awe return, To glean up the scattered... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1869 - 524 pages
...overleaps itself a little, and lands on the edge of extravagance. The finest stanza in the poem is this: For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1871 - 440 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...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... | |
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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... 
