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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1829 |
| AUTHOR: | William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| QUOTATION: | Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; Th’ eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, “The Battle-Field,” stanza 9, The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant, ed. Parke Godwin, vol. 1, p. 276 (1883, reprinted 1967). Written in 1837. |
| SUBJECTS: | Truth |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
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