 | 1842 - 818 pages
...earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not written of the soul. Art is long, and time is fleeting. And our hearts,...muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead-past bury its dead! Act — act in the living Present... | |
 | 1842 - 512 pages
...stanza which he is accused of plagiarising, is, perhaps, the most elegant and finished in the piece : " Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave." It is said, that the idea on which the last three lines of this stanza turn, was suggested, or, to... | |
 | 1842 - 610 pages
...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, And our hearts,...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,...brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marehes to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb,... | |
 | 1842 - 506 pages
...which he is accused of plagia- rising, is, perhaps, the most elegant and finished in the piece : " Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and breve, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave." It is said, that the idea... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 278 pages
...sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; I But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,...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... | |
 | T. WARD AMD CO. - 1844 - 444 pages
...sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us further than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...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... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V - 1844 - 440 pages
...not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 188 pages
...not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...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... | |
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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. 
