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Once To Every Man and Nation

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, some new decision,
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;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong;
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch above His own.

James Russell Lowell, 1845
Cited by Paul B. Long in Citizen Soldiers of World War II

I saw this posted on The Watchman’s Bagpipes blog of August 14, 2021 Posted by Glenn E. Chatfield at 10:03 AM

August 15, 2021 - Posted by Bill Wyler | Culture, Poem | 2021, Responsibility, vision, war