Among the many movements of his mind,
Felt for thee as a lover or a child!
Wordsworth (1803).
Careless seems the great Avenger; history’s pages but record
One death struggle 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.
J. R. Lowell (The Present Crisis).