 Lives of great men all remind us "We can 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, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1351844Full view - About this book
 | 1844 - 454 pages
...dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Fast bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present...departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,... | |
 | Christian life - 1876 - 352 pages
...our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...shipwrecked brother, Seeing shall take heart again.'" But, alas ! sometimes the unconscious influence is for evil. We see some one just going as close to... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 566 pages
...Present ! Heart within, and God o'er head ! V II. Lives of great men all remind us " We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps...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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 564 pages
...glorious Present ! Heart within, and God o'er head ! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of timo. Footsteps, that, perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrcck'd... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1840 - 182 pages
...! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its deaa\ ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within,...shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! "Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present...behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps, thai perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, ' A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing,... | |
 | Medicine - 1840 - 520 pages
...such worthies that it is especially true, that " The lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And departing leave behind us Footsteps...shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again." Dr. Physick was born in Philadelphia, on the 7th of July, 1768, of respectable parents. His father,... | |
 | Commerce - 1841 - 596 pages
...NOTICE OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JOSEPH MAY.* Live 8 of good men all remind \\e We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footsteps...time ; Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er lite'» troubled main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother. Seeing, shall taxe heart again. — LOHOFILLOW.... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1842 - 512 pages
...in a more enticing form. We quote but a portion : " Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead past bury its dead ! Act, act in the living present...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... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1870 - 972 pages
...mission, and that in his life's journey, he has left " Footprints in the sands of time. " Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...shipwrecked brother, Seeing shall take heart again." For such a spirit, forming was not simply a business or the occupation of time. It was communion with... | |
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