 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 heart...  The Republic - Page 1091851Full view - About this book
 | Women's periodicals, English - 1853 - 386 pages
...our lives sublime ; And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of timeFootprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. HOW ALICE... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 382 pages
...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...shipwrecked brother, Seeing shall take heart again !" This "psalm" is eminently poetical, and has doubtless in the future much fine effect locked up in... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...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...shipwrecked brother, Seeing shall take heart again !" This "psalm" is eminently poetical, and has doubtless in tie future much fine effect locked up in... | |
 | 1850 - 744 pages
...all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the shores of time. Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing...solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, may take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pages
...all remind us We can make our livee sublime ; And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps un the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another. Sailing...solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, skill take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving,... | |
 | Daniel Wise - Character - 1850 - 274 pages
...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...solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, may take heart again." Up, then, young man, and gird yourself for the work of self-cultivation ! Set... | |
 | Rugby sch - 1850 - 176 pages
...would not have them washed away by the ceasless changes of the tide of human existence, they must be " Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's...solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing, may take heart again." To be durable, they must be useful, real, practical. Far be it from us to detract... | |
 | Mrs. L. G. Abell - 1850 - 462 pages
...our lives sublime, And, 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, may take heart again. Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still... | |
 | Edward Hazen Parker - Medicine - 1851 - 694 pages
...make oar lives sublime ; And departing leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time. Footsteps which perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing may take life again. Not enjoyment and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; Bat to act, that each... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1851 - 282 pages
...that noble Psalm of Life,— " Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand...shall take heart again ; Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing. Learn to labour, and to wait." THE TniOB.... | |
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