Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take... Handy-book of Literary Curiosities - Page 711by William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1104 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1844 - 454 pages
...departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to... | |
| Christian life - 1876 - 352 pages
...departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing shall take heart again.'" But, alas ! sometimes the unconscious influence is for evil. We see some one just going as close to... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Digital images - 1839 - 174 pages
...departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to... | |
| Medicine - 1840 - 522 pages
...departing leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time; Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again." Dr. Physick was born in Philadelphia, on the 7th of July, 1768, of respectable parents. His father,... | |
| Unitarianism - 1840 - 424 pages
...departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. " Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps, thai perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, ' A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. "Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...anxious to leave " foot-prints on the sands of time" — Foot-prints, that perhaps another Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. In the discussion of such a variety of topics as necessarily enter into the complicated histories of... | |
| New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1870 - 972 pages
...journey, he has left " Footprints in the sands of time. " Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing shall take heart again." For such a spirit, forming was not simply a business or the occupation of time. It was communion with... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of tune ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to... | |
| Periodicals - 1844 - 288 pages
...departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing shall take heart again. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour,... | |
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