 Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart...  H. W. Longfellow and W. C. Bryant - Page 3by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1902 - 714 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1844 - 454 pages
...of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another,...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. THE CIRCASSIAN... | |
 | 1876 - 352 pages
...in : " Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints that...shipwrecked brother, Seeing shall take heart again.'" But, alas ! sometimes the unconscious influence is for evil. We see some one just going as close to... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps, thai perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." — pp. 5-7. Or that exquisite and tender poem, the "Footsteps of Angels." "When the... | |
 | 1840 - 424 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." It would not be easy to find a " strain in a higher mood " than this ; it is equally... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...to future discove ,ry. To use the illustration of an American poet, he has been anxious to leave " foot-prints on the sands of time" — Foot-prints,...shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. In the discussion of such a variety of topics as necessarily enter into the complicated histories of... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V - 1844 - 440 pages
...great men all remind us ЛУe can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another,...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. THE CIRCASSIAN... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipureck'd brother, Seeing, may take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. THE ROVER OMNIBUS. THE ROVER OMNIBUS. As this is what we call our New Year's number, we take the occasion... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; 15 Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, 20 With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. LESSON... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act,— act in the living Present! Heart within, and GOD o'erhead! Lives of great men...fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. LESSON LXII. EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION. Kerb, verb, curb, curb'd, curb'dst; berbs, verbs,... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 1845 - 374 pages
...remind us, We may make our lives sublime ; And, departing, leave behind us, Foot-prints on the sands tif time. Foot-prints, that perhaps another Sailing o'er...shall take heart again. Let us then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait." While volumes... | |
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