 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...  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Page 1361844Full view - About this book
 | 1852 - 862 pages
...— London, Feb. 1852. " Footprints that perhaps another Sailing o'er life's solemn main, — Some forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. " Let us then bo up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to... | |
 | Christian life - 1876 - 352 pages
...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,...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
...time. Footsteps, that, perhaps 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 for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, I. ram to labor and to wait. RURAL TALES... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Digital images - 1839 - 174 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. THE REAPER... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 424 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...take heart again. " Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." It would... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps, thai perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...take heart again. "Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." — pp. 5-7.... | |
 | Medicine - 1840 - 522 pages
...make our lives sublime, And departing leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time; Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again." Dr. Physick was born in Philadelphia, on the 7th of July, 1768, of respectable parents. His father,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1840 - 182 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,./...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 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. THE LIGHT OF STARS. Tin: night is come, but not too soon ; And sinking silently, All silently, the little... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1870 - 972 pages
...mould, had fully wrought out its mission, and that in his life's journey, he has left " Footprints in the sands of time. " Footprints that perhaps another,...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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