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" 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. "
The Progressive Third Reader: For Public and Private Schools : Containing ... - Page 148
by Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 320 pages
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The Church

1858
...unseen world ! How rapidly are the moments flying past us in which we are to work for God and man! " Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...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...
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Gems from the American Poets: With Brief Biographical Notices

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,...though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, arc beating Funeral marches to the grave. Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 24

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1844 - 610 pages
...is felt, no image 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,...
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The Christian Parlor Magazine: 1844-1845, Volume 1

American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...grave is not its goal, Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. • * • • Art is long and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muflled drums are beating, Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the...
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The Rover, Volume 2

Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like mulllcd drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 25

Periodicals - 1844 - 288 pages
...to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And oitr hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I Be...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...sorrow, 10 Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting ; And our hearts, though stout and brave, 17* Still, like muffled drums, are beating • Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field...
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The American Pulpit, Volume 3

Preaching - 1848 - 658 pages
...persons looked to him as their guide to heaven, and now the hundred thousand have become a million. "Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...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...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,...muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a...
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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...sorrow, Is our destined end, and way, 39 But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther— than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...drums, are beating Funeral marches— to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be...
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