 | 1844 - 454 pages
...of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another,...Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. THE... | |
 | Christian life - 1876 - 352 pages
...in : " 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 that...shipwrecked brother, Seeing shall take heart again.'" But, alas ! sometimes the unconscious influence is for evil. We see some one just going as close to... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...to future discove ,ry. To use the illustration of an American poet, he has been anxious to leave " foot-prints on the sands of time" — Foot-prints,...shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. In the discussion of such a variety of topics as necessarily enter into the complicated histories of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marehes to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle,...another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart... | |
 | Books - 1842 - 610 pages
...like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the (lead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present...another Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 pages
...LIFE. 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,...another, . Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...Rushing down to fight the hig rate. To o'erwhelm the akulklng wharf-raU." ONGFELLOW. Let the'clead'' Fas? bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present...another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...of great men all remind us "We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another,...Seeing, 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. THE... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of tune ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's...Seeing, 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. THE... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...to the grave. Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'cr pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, —...another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart... | |
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In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of 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!... 
