The Journey with Jesus: Poems and Prayers
Selected by Dan Clendenin
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
From The Present Crisis
Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record
One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt 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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