513
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 7.

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.
514
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Present Crisis._


=Deeds.=

And with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds.
515
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 393.

Oh! 't is easy
To beget great deeds; but in the rearing of them--
The threading in cold blood each mean detail,
And furze brake of half-pertinent circumstance--
There lies the self-denial.
516
CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.


=Deep.=