 | George Dawson - 1853 - 552 pages
...road. 179.— 8.7. Let us run with patience the race that it set before us. 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,... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...SARGENT. 231 of life. What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. 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,... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1853 - 424 pages
...They may be familiar to you all ; but they lose nothing by repetition : — " 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 real : life is earnest ; And the grave is not its goal : ' Dust tliou art, — to dust... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1853 - 300 pages
...syllables. BIVOUAC ; blv'oo-ftk; required by the metre to be in three syllables TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seern. Life is reaZ! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...in the presence of an Almighty God. TATLOH. LESSON XC. > A PSALM OF LIFE. 1. 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 Beem. 2. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its +goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...imperial and sublime compared with the farce of thy self-deluded career. Awake, thou that sleepest — " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem." And thou, O weary and faltering seeker after a true life ! lift up thy head ; the heights before thee... | |
 | William Delafield Arnold - 1854 - 358 pages
...NORTON NOVEMBER ft. 1927 LONDON : A. ;uvi GA SPOTTISWOODE, New-Strect-Square. " Tell ine 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,... | |
 | Hymns - 1854 - 690 pages
...And peaceful is his end. 8 & 7s. M. 444 . LONGFELLOW. " Life is earnest." i TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 311 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver, G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver - History - 1854 - 252 pages
...the spirit with which all youth should be fired. Let us read it and close. 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, Was... | |
 | James Henry Powell - 1854 - 152 pages
...the aoul, he commences with the following lines :— "THE PSALM OF LIFE." " 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,... | |
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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... 
