 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned. . ; Far in front the cross stands ready, and the crackling fagots bum, While the hooting mob of yesterday... | |
 | Joseph O. Barrett - Spiritualism - 1872 - 308 pages
...fraternity of the l great unchurched.'' May his shadow lengthen, and his heresy strengthen ! Amen. " i 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 fragments burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - Journalists - 1873 - 744 pages
...vindication who in life would never stoop to vindicate himself, and to them we may safely trust his fame. " ' For Humanity sweeps onward. Where to-day the martyr...morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands, And the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe returns To gather up the scattered ashes into History's... | |
 | 1873 - 354 pages
...innovating reformer's portion ; but after generations learned his worth and revere received his memory. " 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 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... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - English literature - 1874 - 360 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 474 pages
...proceed. Not the first time in history will a scaffold become the pedestal of honor. Out of death comes life, and the "traitor" whom he blindly executes will...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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 464 pages
...proceed. Not the first time in history will a scaffold become the pedestal of honor. Out of death comes life, and the "traitor" whom he blindly executes will...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 - Sermons, American - 1875 - 336 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 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... | |
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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... 
