 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...a philosophy we may all study with advantage : — " A PSALM OF LIFE. " What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. " Tell me not in mournful...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. j " Life is real ! life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art. to dust returnest,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night ! A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEABT OF THE TOUSG MA* SAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers,...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,"... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night ! 21 A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF TEE TOON9 MAN BAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers,...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,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1850 - 292 pages
...syllables. BIVOUAC ; blv'oo-iVk ; required by the metre to be in three syllables. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is reaZ ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | Reed and Pardon - 1850 - 130 pages
...saim of lift. WHAT ТИК 11КЛПТ OF THE YOUNO MAN SAID TO THE I'SAUIIbT. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream !" For the soul...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 retumest,'Was... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...ad" A PSALM OF LIFE. " What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. " Telfme not in mournful question, that where the fear of vampirism prevails, and there occur " Life is real ! life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art. to dust returnest,... | |
 | Primitive Baptists - 1850 - 452 pages
...the Lord, forasmuch as we know that our labour is not in vain in the Lord. " Tell us not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...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... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - Women missionaries - 1850 - 380 pages
...Longfellow, was one of her favorites, and she often repeated its truthful stanzas: "Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...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,... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...of sin and sorrow, Would bring thee nigh. Tell me not in mournful numbers ' Life is but a troubled 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 retuinest,'... | |
 | William Adams - Christian ethics - 1850 - 392 pages
...much loftier and truer are the lines of our great American poet, Longfellow: " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream, For the soul is dead flint slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life u real! life is earnest! And the Grave is not... | |
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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... 
