 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...cattle 1 Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant I Let the dead Past bury its dead 1 Act — act in the living Present ! Heart within,...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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1859 - 358 pages
...overhead ! Lives of great men all remind us "We can make our lives sumblime ; And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Footprints that...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." ... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...hero in the strife! 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...another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and ship-wreck'd brother Seeing, shall take heart again* Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting,...Footprints, that perhaps another Sailing o'er life's stormy main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. SONG. 123 In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac...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.... | |
 | Virginia De Forrest - 1860 - 368 pages
...the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb driven cattle, Be a hero in the strife ! A PSALM OF LIFE. 205 Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead Past...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. PEACE. LET... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 pages
...field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the Strife I Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past...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. LOXGFEU.OW.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 386 pages
...overhead ! 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,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor, and to wait." Glancing again critically at Longfellow's poems, we find that his genius is essentially... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - 1860 - 448 pages
...in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Aet, — aet in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead...another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreeked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1972 - 140 pages
...poem: "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." Dr. Trever. It is right and proper that we should at this time turn to the Scriptures.... | |
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