 | Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - Hymns, English - 1853 - 674 pages
...strong, In the power of truth assaileth Every form of wrong. 730. 8 & 7s. M. 1 TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1853 - 300 pages
...syllables. BIVOUAC ; blv'oo-ftk; required by the metre to be in three syllables TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seern. Life is reaZ! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...in the presence of an Almighty God. TATLOH. LESSON XC. > A PSALM OF LIFE. 1. 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 Beem. 2. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its +goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...imperial and sublime compared with the farce of thy self-deluded career. Awake, thou that sleepest — " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem." And thou, O weary and faltering seeker after a true life ! lift up thy head ; the heights before thee... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pages
...but his "Psalm of Life," he would never be forgotten while the English language would be remembered. A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID...TO THE PSALMIST. ' Tell me not in mournful numbers : Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! " Life i» but an empty dream !" | Be a hero in the strife ! For... | |
 | Hymns - 1854 - 690 pages
...And peaceful is his end. 8 & 7s. M. 444 . LONGFELLOW. " Life is earnest." i TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 311 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 794 pages
...mournful numbers, Be not like dumb, driven cattle, Life is but an empty dream; Be a hero in the strife. For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Trust not future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead past bury its dead; Life is real ! Life is earnest... | |
 | Bible - 1855 - 688 pages
...And rise to endless day. 454 Eeeles. Ix. 10. 8.7. LONGFELLOW. 1 rriBLL me not in mournful numbers, J. "Life is but an empty dream," For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 2 Life is real, life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | N. Brittan, L. H. Sherwood - Hymns, English - 1855 - 400 pages
...Brought on by borrowed troubles. Would prove, as certainly they are, A mass of empty bubbles. No. 81. PSALM OF LIFE. What the Heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist. BY LONGFELLOW. NmM Gcms> ^ Sheet Music 7 Vocalist, 62. Young Vocalist, 11!. 1. Tell me not, in mournful... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night! A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THB HEART OP THE YOUNO MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 10 A PSALM OF LIFE. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; "Dust, thou art,... | |
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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 Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. 
