| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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