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20. The Present Crisis

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 07:02 PM

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James Russell Lowell

... Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight,
... And the choice goes by forever twixt that darkness and that light ...

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 ...

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 ...

... New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ...

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