James Russell Lowell Quotes on Future
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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.
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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?
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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!