 | Charles Brooks - Families - 1853 - 378 pages
...Father's work, We rest upon his arm. 52. 8&7s. M. LONGFELLOW. PSALM OF LIFE. 1 TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1853 - 300 pages
...syllables. BIVOUAC ; blv'oo-ftk; required by the metre to be in three syllables TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seern. Life is reaZ! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...in the presence of an Almighty God. TATLOH. LESSON XC. > A PSALM OF LIFE. 1. 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 Beem. 2. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its +goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 888 pages
...widely diffused amongst us ! " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream, For the seal is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. " Life is real ! — life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dost thon art, to dust retumest, Was not spoken of the soul. "Not enjoyment... | |
 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1854 - 486 pages
...nor shall ever return again. EXERCISE II. " A Psalm of Life," by LONGFELLOW. Tell me not in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream," For the soul...its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken to the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way, But to act, that... | |
 | James Henry Powell - 1854 - 152 pages
...the aoul, he commences with the following lines :— "THE PSALM OF LIFE." " Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, 112 " Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act. that each to-morrow Find... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 504 pages
...most fair, The best-beloved Night ! A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THS HE1RT OT -. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; "Dust tliou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...Ear'nest, adj, Goal, n. Fleet'ing, part. Biv'ou-ac, n. Main, n. For-lorn', adj. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream !" For the soul...not what they seem. 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... | |
 | Hymns - 1854 - 690 pages
...And peaceful is his end. 8 & 7s. M. 444 . LONGFELLOW. " Life is earnest." i TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 311 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
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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. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest, 
