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Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
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“Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;”

William Cullen Bryant

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The Battlefield
Date
1837
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Meaning of “Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;”

Bryant expresses confidence that truth can survive temporary defeat and re-emerge even when public power, violence or opinion appears to have buried it.

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“The Battlefield,” represented in Project Gutenberg #29700. The line belongs to a civic-religious meditation on conflict, sacrifice and moral endurance; its resurrection imagery expresses poetic conviction rather than a literal law of history.

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