| 1813 - 1368 pages
...the habitations of the dead ! " Life is short, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, thongh strong and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave." Does the shuttle cease to ply, when the web has been fully woven ? In like manner, when the great web... | |
| 1844 - 454 pages
...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, 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... | |
| 1862 - 346 pages
...this morning, I could not help thinking of those lines in the psalm : " ' Our hearts, though strong and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.' " " Well, dear Annie, returned her mother, smiling, though it is right and needful to meditate sometimes... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 566 pages
...to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. IT. 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 I Be... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pages
...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, 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... | |
| Edward Payson Weston - 1840 - 224 pages
...round. LINES ON THE DEATH OF BB THATCHER. SY ISAAC M'LELLAN, JR. 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. LONGFELLOW. HARK ! the funeral bell is tolling — Calling to the grave's retreat ; And the funeral... | |
| 1840 - 424 pages
...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, 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... | |
| James Handasyd Perkins - 1840 - 36 pages
...followers, be prepared to take up each his cross, and follow Him : "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. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, iearn to... | |
| 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 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... | |
| 1842 - 512 pages
...is, perhaps, the most elegant and finished in the piece : " 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." It is said, that the idea on which the last three lines of this stanza turn, was suggested, or, to... | |
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