 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1854 - 486 pages
...like a muffled timbrel, Conducts men forth upon their last journey. EXERCISE III. The same, coniinued. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac...and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Foot-prints on the sands of time. Foot-prints,... | |
 | S. Herbert Lancey - American literature - 1854 - 338 pages
...bivouac of Life, Be not 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,...and God o'erhead ! 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,... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver, G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver - History - 1854 - 252 pages
...bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle, Be a hero in the strife. Trust no fortune, however pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act...and God o'erhead ! 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... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pages
...slumbers. And things are not what they seem. Trtust »» *utu"• howe'er pleasant ! .,.., ,fr<.. , .. ' Let the dead Past bury its dead : Act,— act in the...and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, ' And, departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; —... | |
 | James Henry Powell - 1854 - 152 pages
...strife ! " Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead past bury its dead ! Act, act, in the firing present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! " Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime—- And departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of Time. "... | |
 | Clavin Henderson Wiley - Readers - 1855 - 380 pages
...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 God o'erhead ! 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,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...is real ! Life is earnest ! Л i nl the grave is not its goal ; Dust tin >u art, to dust retumest. affright At the melancholy We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac...and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ;—... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven oattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er...and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind us Wo can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us 8 ' An, I 111,. I TiIi- Himi-™ elli-... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero iii the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let...and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our li ves sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; —... | |
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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... 
