 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 sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the...  Voices of the Night - Page 9by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1840 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1844 - 454 pages
...make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...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... | |
 | 1844 - 288 pages
...not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no future howe'er pleasant ! Let the past bury its dead ! Act — act in the living present...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, — LONOFZLLOW.... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 566 pages
...time. Footsteps, that, perhaps 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 any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, I. ram to labor and to wait. RURAL TALES... | |
 | 1840 - 424 pages
...earnest; And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. " Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end...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 admirable for its... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1840 - 422 pages
...the grave. " In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb,Jt3riven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife. " Trust no Future,...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 admirable for its... | |
 | 1840 - 424 pages
...hero in the strife. " Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead past bury its dead ! Actvact in the living Present ! Heart within and God o'erhead...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 admirable for... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 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,...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." — pp. 5-7. Or that exquisite and tender poem, the "Footsteps of Angels." "When the hours of Day are... | |
 | 1842 - 506 pages
...departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of lime. " Footsteps that perhaps another, failing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked...Seeing, shall take heart again. " Let us then, be up ami doing, With a heart for any late ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Seem to labor and to wait."... | |
 | 1842 - 512 pages
...on the sands of time. " Footsteps that perhaps another. Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A Ibrloru and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. " Let us then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Seem to labor and to wait." The most important... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...time ; Footprints, that perhaps 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 any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. THE LIGHT... | |
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