--Lowell, The Search.

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The Sheep and the Goats.[246 L.J.]

"Some great cause, God's new Messiah,
offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand,
and the sheep upon the right,
And the choice goes by forever
'twixt that darkness and that light."

--Lowell, The Present Crisis.

The Silver Cord.[246 S.A.]

"And here's the silver cord which--what's our word?
Depends from the gold bowl, which loosed (not "lost")
Lets us from heaven to hell,--one chop we're loose!"

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

Slaughter of the Innocents.[45 L.J.]

"Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused,
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen."