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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. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in... "
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 3
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 879 pages
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1863 - 604 pages
...self-improvement; and it always brings into my mind that beautiful verse from Longfellow's Psalm of Life— " In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac...like dumb, driven cattle, Be a hero in the strife. ' I hope this is not the last meeting of this kind to be held here. There are numbers more with ability...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 43

1844 - 454 pages
...LIFE is real ! Life is earnest ! i And the grave is not its goal ; "Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment and not...like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Fast bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pages
...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. Not enjoyment, and not...like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 10; Volume 28

1840 - 424 pages
...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. " Not enjoyment, and not...like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife. " Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead past bury its dead ! Act, act in the living Present...
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The North American Review, Volume 50

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pages
...to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. " Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stoiit and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating...like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! "Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living...
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The North American Review, Volume 50

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...our hearts, though stout and brave, 1840.] Longfellow's Voices of the Night. 267 Still, like mtffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. "...like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! "Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living...
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The Monthly Review

1842 - 610 pages
...soul. Not enjoyment and 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,...like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the (lead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marehes to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle,...like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...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. Not enjoyment, and not...like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living...
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Readings in American Poetry

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 280 pages
...; Dust thou^art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. 20 A PSALM OF LIFE. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to...like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living...
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