 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1850 - 380 pages
...one of her favorites, and she often repeated its truthful stanzas: "Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead...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, And our hearts,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF TEE TOON9 MAN BAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead...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, And our hearts,... | |
 | 1850 - 452 pages
...forasmuch as we know that our labour is not in vain in the Lord. " Tell us not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul is dead...not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of tho soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act that... | |
 | Reed and Pardon - 1850 - 130 pages
...WHAT ТИК 11КЛПТ OF THE YOUNO MAN SAID TO THE I'SAUIIbT. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream !" For the soul is dead...what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust retumest,'Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 pages
...slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is reaZ ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was...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 ; And our hearts,... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 380 pages
...Psalm of Life he has declared this faith. " Life is real — life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ! Dust thou art — to dust returnest—...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way : But to act, that each to-morrow Find us further than to-day." The following verse contains a beautiful image... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1850 - 396 pages
...•• Psalm " is a noble accompaniment : ." Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; ' Dust thou art, to dust returnest,' Was...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. In the world's broad field of battle, In the... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1850 - 448 pages
...Longfellow's " Psalm" is a noble accompaniment : " Life is real! Life is earnest 1 And the grave is not its goal; ' Dust thou art, to dust returnest,' Was...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. In the world's broad field of battle, In the... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pages
...slumbers, And things are not what they seem. j " Life is real ! life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art. to dust returnest, Was not...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act that each to-morrow Find us further than to-day. " Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1850 - 176 pages
...of Life," express her prevailing feeling : " Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; ' Dust thou art, to dust returnest,' —...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. " Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the... | |
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of... 
