Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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The Battle-Field.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,—

The eternal years of God are hers;

But Error, wounded, writhes with pain,

And dies among his worshippers.

The Battle-Field.

Footnotes

[572:1] The edition of 1821 read,—

The innumerable caravan that moves

To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take.