Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,— Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified;
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
~ James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
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