 Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and 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, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are...  American Poetry - Σελίδα 367των Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 721 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 σελίδες
...^ $0nlm of lift. What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. 1 1 TELL me not in mournful numbers, \ Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1853 - 606 σελίδες
...Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; ' Dust thou art, to dust returnpth,' y face, Though different, glows with beauty; at the...clouds shut it from mankind, They fall bare-bosomed, ! Trust no future howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead past bury its dead ! Act — act in the living Present!... | |
 | 1853 - 560 σελίδες
...destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. LONGFELLOW. 35 Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 σελίδες
...pilgrimage I fare, Eesolved to find and praise Him everywhere. J. Gostick. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul...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!... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1854 - 354 σελίδες
...repeated its truthful stanzas : " Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For tbe soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what...like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! "Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let tbe dead past bury its dead ! Act — act in the living present... | |
 | Popular educator - 1854 - 922 σελίδες
...¡8 real ! Lifo is earnest ! And tho grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust retumest," Woe not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,...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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 σελίδες
...; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest" Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow Js our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow...like dumb driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant I Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living... | |
 | S. Herbert Lancey - 1854 - 338 σελίδες
...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,...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, — act in the living... | |
 | 1854 - 456 σελίδες
...enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us further than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And...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... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver, G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver - 1854 - 252 σελίδες
...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,...like dumb, driven cattle, Be a hero in the strife. Trust no fortune, however pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living Present,... | |
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