 | Charles Brooks - 1853 - 378 pages
...Father's work, We rest upon his arm. 52. 8&7s. M. LONGFELLOW. PSALM OF LIFE. 1 TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - 1853 - 674 pages
...strong, In the power of truth assaileth Every form of wrong. 730. 8 & 7s. M. 1 TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1853 - 122 pages
...pockets, and cotton-wool in their ears. To these Longfellow writes : — " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem." To the heated speculator, busy with the rise and fall of funds, Life is the toss of a coin ; to the... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...in the presence of an Almighty God. TATLOH. LESSON XC. > A PSALM OF LIFE. 1. TELL me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they Beem. 2. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its +goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1853 - 300 pages
...syllables. BIVOUAC ; blv'oo-ftk; required by the metre to be in three syllables TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seern. Life is reaZ! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | 1853 - 888 pages
...widely diffused amongst us ! " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream, For the seal is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. " Life is real ! — life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dost thon art, to dust retumest, Was not spoken of the soul. "Not enjoyment... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
...PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is iJejid that slumbers, And things/ are not what they seem* Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the jgave_is not its goal ; "Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our... | |
 | 1853 - 692 pages
...that each to-morrow Find us further than to-day. Life is real, life is earnest But this world is not its goal. ' Dust thou art, to dust returnest,' Was not spoken to the soul." To one who is engaged in the struggle to serve God amid the vice and temptation oflife, these works... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...imperial and sublime compared with the farce of thy self-deluded career. Awake, thou that sleepest — " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem." And thou, O weary and faltering seeker after a true life ! lift up thy head ; the heights before thee... | |
 | James Henry Powell - 1854 - 152 pages
...With a strong faith in the immortality of the aoul, he commences with the following lines :— "THE PSALM OF LIFE." " Tell me not, in mournful numbers,...is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, 112 " Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act. that each to-morrow Find... | |
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of... 
