 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 pages
...time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then,...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait ENDYMION. THE rising moon has hid the stars, Her level rays, like golden bars, Lie on the landscape... | |
 | 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
...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...take heart again. . Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. LESSON LXII.... | |
 | 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...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait." While volumes of thoughtful lines like these find purchasers and readers at home for eight editions... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1845 - 124 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,...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. A LITTLE child, in bulrush ark, Came floating on the Nile's broad water ; That child made Egypt's glory... | |
 | 1846 - 756 pages
...departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing on life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. GATHER THE FRAGMENTS. If. L. Duncan. Thin clouds are floating in the sky, And in the glorious west... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...lives sublime ; And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand of time ! — Footprint, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er Life's solemn main,...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. LESSON XXXIV. Employment of Winter Evenings lij the Young. — PRENTICE. DURING the winter season,... | |
 | Josiah Moody Fletcher - 1847 - 148 pages
...of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And1 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 labor and to wait. LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | 1883 - 500 pages
...that perhaps another Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, may take heart again. Let us then be up and doing With...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait." Ah, kindly reader, you may have noticed in your journey through life such and such a hopeful man, —... | |
 | 1848 - 490 pages
...great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another....achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. We cannot close our extracts without quoting the following spirited translation from the German. THE... | |
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Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a 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! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives... 
