3 James Russell Lowell Quotes on Future

James Russell Lowell quotes on future

40. 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.

75. Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?

78. They come transfigured back, Secure from change in their high-hearted ways, Beautiful evermore, and with the rays Of morn on their white Shields of Expectation!