 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...  Hymns of Faith and Life - Page 211edited by - 1889 - 648 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Hughes - 1866 - 442 pages
...their dead selves to higher things.' TENNYSON CHAPTER I. HOW THE TIDE TURNED. " Once to every man aod nation, comes the moment to decide In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side: • ***•• Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject... | |
 | Frank Moore - History - 1867 - 602 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, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right,... | |
 | 1879 - 692 pages
...The Present Crisis, are both noble poems. From the last of these I cannot help quoting : — " Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...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 right,... | |
 | Frank Moore - History - 1867 - 620 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,...of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Same great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - History - 1867 - 706 pages
...GRAVITIES, JOKES, RAILLERY, PERPLEXITIES, BLUNDERS, RETORTS ; BURLESQUES, WITTICISMS, &c., &c. " Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide...strife of TRUTH with FALSEHOOD, for the good or evil sid«." " Keep step with the music of UNION, * The music our ancestors sung, mien states, like a jubilant... | |
 | 1869 - 474 pages
...Sorrowfully we may apply to them the words of Lowell, whom we have quoted so often in this article: " Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide,...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 right... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - Immortality - 1870 - 356 pages
...Judasa, Rome, and Carthage, to a darker and more dreadful doom. " Once to every man and nation conies the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with...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 right,... | |
 | 1871 - 868 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, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right,... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...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,...or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great, Slow... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...Repeat thy father's creed, thy mother's prayer ! Oliver Wendell Holme». 583. CRISIS, A Nation's. Once est fe@ . offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right,... | |
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