 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Books - 1842 - 610 pages
...Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Wat not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment and not sorrow,...strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the (lead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and GoD o'erhead ! Lives... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1842 - 512 pages
...stanza which he is accused of plagiarising, is, perhaps, the most elegant and finished in the piece : " Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave." It is said, that the idea on which the last three lines of this stanza turn, was suggested, or, to... | |
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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. 
