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James Russell Lowell · Modernismo

Once to Every Man and Nation

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Comes the moment to decide,

In the strife of truth and falsehood,

For the good or evil side.

Some great cause, God's new Messiah,

Off'ring each the bloom or blight;

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 'tis prosperous to be just ;

Then it is the brave man chooses,

While the coward stands a side,

Till the multitude make virtue

Of the faith they had denied.
Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes,

They were souls that stood alone,

Stood serene, and down the future

Saw the golden beam incline

To the side of perfect justice,

Mastered by their faith divine,

By one man's plain truth to manhood

And to God's supreme design.
Though the cause of evil prosper,

Yet 'tis Truth alone is strong.

Truth forever on the scaffold,

Wrong forever on the throne,

Yet that scaffold sways the future,

And, behind the dim unknown,

Standeth God within the shadow,

Keeping watch above his own. Amen.

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Autor
James Russell Lowell
Título
Once to Every Man and Nation
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Modernismo
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La Biblioteca
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James Russell Lowell, «Once to Every Man and Nation», Poetósfera, poetosfera.com/p/ws-en-once-to-every-man-and-nation--james-russell-lowell-6b261f.html

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