“Once
to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In
the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
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.”—American poet James
Russell Lowell (1819–1891). “The Present Crisis” (1844)
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