 | Home life - 1848 - 186 pages
...We may make our lives sublime; And departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time : " ' Footprints, that perhaps another. Sailing o'er life's...shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.' " To live only to gratify self is surely inconsistent with our responsibilities as rational beings,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. " Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's...shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again." This is very different from saying, that, if we follow the example of the great and good, we shall... | |
 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - 1848 - 856 pages
...man through the influence of his sinful trade ? — Nat. Temp. C/iron. Selected for Friendi' Review. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS. There is a reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, H« reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. "Shall I have nought that... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1849 - 356 pages
...us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time : Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's...still pursuing ; Learn to labour and to wait. ' The Communists have not done much to add to the dignity of labour by their renowned proposition, which... | |
 | 1849 - 274 pages
...remind ug 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...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. LONGFELLOW. QUEEN VICTORIA. MOST royal lady, on thy face I look, And gather thence, as from some holy... | |
 | 1854 - 672 pages
...We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time, — Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour, and to wait." London, July 1th, 1855. LONGFELLOW. "As patience is the greatest of friends to the unfortunate, so... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then,...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. MY COUNTRY. SCOTT. BREATHES there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, From wandering... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...time, — Foot-prints that perhaps another Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us then...Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour, learn to wait. Until the 1st January, adieu ! I am yours, affectionately, UNCLE JOSEPH. BRIEF REMARKS... | |
 | 430 pages
...us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of 1 ime ; Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er Life's...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to lahour aud to wait. Here, excepting... | |
 | 1849 - 472 pages
...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...shipwrecked brother— Seeing, shall take heart again. 'Bivouac, properly the guard of an encampment; often used to signify t temporary encampment. Let us... | |
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Lives of great men all remind us We can make 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, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart... 
