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Retribution: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

The trumpet! the trumpet! the dead have all heard: Lo, the depths of the stone-cover'd charnels are stirr'd: From the sea, from the land, from the south and the north, The vast generations of man are come forth.— MILMAN — Hymns for Church Service. Second Sunday in Advent. St. 3.

I see the Judge enthroned; the flaming guard: The volume open'd!-open'd every heart!— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night IX. L. 262.

Shall man alone, for whom all else revives, No resurrection know? Shall man alone, Imperial man! be sown in barren ground, Less privileged than grain, on which he feeds?— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night VI. L. 704.

Remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.— WENTWORTH DILLON — Essays on Translated Verse. L. 87.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord : He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored : He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.— JULIA WARD HOWE — Battle Hymn of

the Republic, Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.— FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU — Retribution.

From the Sinngedichte. See Longfellow's trans. Poetic Aphorisms. To be left alone And face to face with my own crime, had been Just retribution.— LONGFELLOW — Masque of Pandora. Pt. VIII. In the Garden.

Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts; Dash him to pieces! Julius Cæsar. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 81. But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at duck or plover Bear wide, and kick their owners over.— JOHN TRUMBULL — McFingal. Canto I. L. 95.