Careless seems the great Avenger;
Historys lessons but recorded
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.
Of The Dawn Of Freedom
written byJames Russell Lowell
© James Russell Lowell