 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 sands...  The Golden Gift: A Token for All Seasons - Pagina 29geredigeerd door - 1847 - 128 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1852 - 862 pagina’s
...— London, Feb. 1852. " Footprints that perhaps another Sailing o'er life's solemn main, — Some forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. " Let us then bo up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to... | |
 | 1844 - 454 pagina’s
...Heart within, and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands...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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 566 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pagina’s
...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. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 424 pagina’s
...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 - 1840 - 584 pagina’s
...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,...take heart again. "Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to lal>or and to wait" — pp. 5-7.... | |
 | 1842 - 512 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1842 - 610 pagina’s
...of 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 acheiving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. The Village... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pagina’s
...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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