 | 1813 - 1368 pàgines
...the habitations of the dead ! " Life is short, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, thongh strong and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave." Does the shuttle cease to ply, when the web has been fully woven ? In like manner, when the great web... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1863 - 604 pàgines
...self-improvement; and it always brings into my mind that beautiful verse from Longfellow's Psalm of Life— " 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. ' I hope this is not the last meeting of this kind to be held here. There are numbers... | |
 | 1821 - 38 pàgines
...and gay, Still like pleastnt drums are beating Wedding marches all the way. In the world's broad Held of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb driven cattle — Be a heroine, be a wile. Trust no future, how'er pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead ! Act ! act to... | |
 | 1844 - 454 pàgines
...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...bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Fast bury its dead ! Act, —... | |
 | 1862 - 346 pàgines
...this morning, I could not help thinking of those lines in the psalm : " ' Our hearts, though strong and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.' " " Well, dear Annie, returned her mother, smiling, though it is right and needful to meditate sometimes... | |
 | 1853 - 1142 pàgines
...human nature, to be more, and do more, than if you had lived at another time. • On the world's wide field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle— Be a hero in the strife.' " A blessed legacy to the children, are the counsels and the example of snch a... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 564 pàgines
...destin'd 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...the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle 1 Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pàgines
...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...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, —... | |
 | 1840 - 424 pàgines
...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...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 ! Actvact... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pàgines
...to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. " Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stoiit and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating...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, —... | |
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Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. 
