 | 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,...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 CIRCASSIAN... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 424 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." It would not be easy to find a " strain in a higher mood " than this ; it is equally... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps, thai perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." — pp. 5-7. Or that exquisite and tender poem, the "Footsteps of Angels." "When the... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V - 1844 - 440 pages
...great men all remind us ЛУe can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another,...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 CIRCASSIAN... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...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,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. LESSON LXII. EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION. Kerb, verb, curb, curb'd, curb'dst, herbs, verbs,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time. Footsteps, that perhaps another Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1846 - 332 pages
...our lives sublime ; And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." LECTURE III. ON THE BEAU IDEAL OF THE PERFECT TEACHER. BY DENISON OLMSTED, LL.D. PROFESSOR... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time. Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. A HARMLESS SOLDIERY. The good people of Nantucket never had the military disease but once,... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life 's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. BERMUDAS. —MareeU. WHERE the remote Bermudas ride, In the ocean's bosom unespied ; From... | |
 | Josiah Moody Fletcher - American poetry - 1847 - 148 pages
...of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And1 departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ;, Footprints, that perhaps another,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. LONGFELLOW. Disappointment. Playful she turned that he might see The passing smile her... | |
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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! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives... 
