Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
-- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882)
-- A Psalm of Life
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
-- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882)
-- A Psalm of Life
Related:
- Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate
Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.... - 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.
-- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- A Psalm of Life... - Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,
She lives whom we call dead.
-- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Resignatio... - Like sands in a swimsuit...so are the days of our lives.
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their
melancholy
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselve... - Life is real! life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal
Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.... - A person without a navel lives within all of us.
- 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.... - Ah! what would the world be to us
If the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
