 | Electronic journals - 1887 - 700 pages
...: — Tell me not in idle jingle Marriage is an empty dream ; For the girl is dead that 's single, And things are not what they seem. Life is real, life is earnest, Single blessedness a fib ; "Man thou art, to man returnest," Has been spoken of the rib. It occurs... | |
 | Primitive Baptists - 1850 - 452 pages
...the Lord, forasmuch as we know that our labour is not in vain in the Lord. " Tell us not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of tho soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act that... | |
 | Reed and Pardon - 1850 - 130 pages
...saim of lift. WHAT ТИК 11КЛПТ OF THE YOUNO MAN SAID TO THE I'SAUIIbT. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream !" For the soul...what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust retumest,'Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1850 - 292 pages
...syllables. BIVOUAC ; blv'oo-iVk ; required by the metre to be in three syllables. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is reaZ ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...of sin and sorrow, Would bring thee nigh. Tell me not in mournful numbers ' Life is but a troubled dream,' For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things...what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; ' Dust thou art, to dust retuinest,' Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...A PSALM OF LIFE. " What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. j " Life is real ! life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art. to dust returnest,... | |
 | William Adams - Christian ethics - 1850 - 392 pages
...blasphemous flippancy upon a tomb ! How much loftier and truer are the lines of our great American poet, Longfellow: " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream, For the soul is dead flint slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life u real! life is earnest! And the Grave is not... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...divided us, and thereby made us slaves." — Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream !" For the soul...what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returuest " Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | Gems - 1851 - 206 pages
...ANON. A PSALM OF LIFE. What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...what they seem. Life is real! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returneth, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old. MACAULAY. A PSALM OF LIFE. Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 1 See note 3, p. 231. Life is real — Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou... | |
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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 seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of... 
