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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. "
The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation - Page 119
by Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 656 pages
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1863 - 604 pages
...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...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 more with ability...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 43

1844 - 454 pages
...soul. Not enjoyment and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting,...! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Fast bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! Lives of...
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Yr Haul: neu drysorfa o wybodaeth, hanesiol a gwladwriaethol

1903 - 610 pages
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 12

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 564 pages
...soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our 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,...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...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 12

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 566 pages
...sorrow, Is our destin'd end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. IT. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 28

Unitarianism - 1840 - 424 pages
..." Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. " Art is long, and time is...howe'er pleasant, Let the dead past bury its dead ! Actvact in the living Present ! Heart within and God o'erhead ! " Lives of great men all remind us...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1840 - 182 pages
...soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting,...Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its deaa\ ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all...
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The Bowdoin Poets

Edward Payson Weston - American poetry - 1840 - 228 pages
...lies, And flowers of Eden fringe it round. LINES ON THE DEATH OF BB THATCHER. BY ISAAC M'LELLAN. JR. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,...muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. LONGFELLOW, HARK ! the funeral bell is tolling — Calling to the grave's retreat ; And the funeral...
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Christian Civilization: An Address Delivered Before the Athenian Society of ...

James Handasyd Perkins - Christian civilization - 1840 - 36 pages
...the victory. If you would be His followers, be prepared to take up each his cross, and follow Him : "Art is long, and Time is fleeting: And our hearts,...muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, iearn to...
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THE REVIVALIST

REV. JOSEPH BELCHER - 1841 - 440 pages
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