...the habitations of the dead ! " Life is short, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, thongh strong and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave." Does the shuttle cease to ply, when the web has been fully woven ? In like manner, when the great web...

...this morning, I could not help thinking of those lines in the psalm : " ' Our hearts, though strong and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.' " " Well, dear Annie, returned her mother, smiling, though it is right and needful to meditate sometimes...

...DEATH OF BB THATCHER. SY ISAAC M'LELLAN, JR. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. LONGFELLOW. HARK ! the funeral bell is tolling — Calling to the grave's retreat ; And the funeral...

...take up each his cross, and follow Him : "Art is long, and Time is fleeting: And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, iearn to...

...dust returnest, Was not written of the soul. Art is long, and time is fleeting. And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead-past bury its dead! Act — act in the living Present...

...comes over the soul with more power than that which we owe to a living writer : * OUR hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.'* But though the fancy may he pleased or the imagination aroused, or the judgment convinced by such statements,...

...in which we are to work for God and man! " Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave." Such being the case, let us, my brother-disciples, make the best use of the seasons and means of doing...

...each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our heartg, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Lives of great men all remind us, We may make our lives sublime; Foot-prints, that perhaps another...

...hundred thousand have become a million. "Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating, Funeral marches to the grave. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving— still pursuing— THE EFFECTIVE...

...the white radiance of eternity.— Shelby. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. — Longfellow. A better prize There ls for man, a glory of this world Well worth the labor of the...