 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...unblasted regions for his miserable Shall we guide his gory fingers where our helpless children play ? Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched...brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith... | |
 | Eliza Wigham - Abolitionists - 1863 - 188 pages
...appreciate the courage of those who began to assail it — two or three against the millions. " Then to side with Truth is noble, when we share her wretched...the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside — Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the... | |
 | 1879 - 692 pages
...the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. " Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting... | |
 | 1868 - 104 pages
...noble when we share her wretohod crust Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to bo just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit till his Lord is crucified." (Cheers.) I need not remind you how our... | |
 | 1869 - 474 pages
...earnest and irrepressible conviction, is another thing, quite ; but it is the path to true renown. "Then to side with truth is noble, When we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, And 't is prosperous to be just. Then it is the brave man chooses, While the coward stands aside, Doubting... | |
 | Richard Howe Allen - 1870 - 248 pages
...up in defence of great principles means little. But there are other periods when it means very much. To side with truth is noble, When we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause brings fame or profit, And 'tis prosperous to be just. In such times brave, heroic souls have occupied... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...Sarah J. Hale. 1793. HEROES, True. Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched mist, h, L +. [crucified, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is And the multitude make virtue of the faith... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 pages
...his miserable prey \ — — Shall we guide his gory fingers where our helpless children play ? Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1875 - 336 pages
...I will not wait till they are dead and classic before I call them so and honour them as such, for " To side with truth is noble when we share her wretched...brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...for his miserable prey : — Shall we guide his gory fingers where our helpless children play? Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched...brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith... | |
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified,... 
