James Russell Lowell

Of the Dawn of Freedom

Careless seems the great Avenger;
History’€™s lessons but recorded
One death-grapple in the darkness
‘€œTwixt old systems and the Word;
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.
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