 Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in...  English Poetry..: With Introduction, Notes and Illustrations - Page 13171896Full view - About this book
 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1854 - 486 pages
...like a muffled timbrel, Conducts men forth upon their last journey. EXERCISE III. The same, coniinued. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac...another Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart... | |
 | S. Herbert Lancey - 1854 - 338 pages
...bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife. 14 Trust no Future, howc'cr pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act,...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, "With a heart for any fate ; Still aching, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. HENRY W. LOXGFELLOW.... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pages
...slumbers. And things are not what they seem. Trtust »» *utu"• howe'er pleasant ! .,.., ,fr<.. , .. ' Let the dead Past bury its dead : Act,— act in the...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its gosl ; •' Dust... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1854 - 96 pages
...resting-place. " 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...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." MR. TAYLOR, of Ohio, said : MR. SPEAKER : Death has so often invaded this house during... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1854 - 86 pages
...resting-place. " 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...} Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." MR. TAYLOE, of Ohio, said : MR. SPEAKER : Death has so often invaded this house during... | |
 | 1854 - 456 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,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. BERMUDAS. — Marvell. WHERE the remote Bermudas ride, In the ocean's bosom unespied ;... | |
 | 1854 - 590 pages
...•' Lives of great men nil remind us We can make our lives sublime ; And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time. Footprints, that...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." CL CORRESPONDENCE.... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...o'erhead ! laves 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...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. Longfellow.... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1854 - 354 pages
...! > " 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...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." Her soul... | |
 | Clavin Henderson Wiley - 1855 - 380 pages
...Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark ! A PSALM Or LIFE. BY LONGFEILOW. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart... | |
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