A PSALM OF LIFE
Sir ? —Gould you please publish the following verses?: — 'i ' 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 " ■ Was. not spoken of the soul. r Not. enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act each tomorrow p, 9 - j Find us farther than today. Art is long, and Time is fleeting^ And our hearts, though stout and ! ® brave, 4 ' ,>>">■. ; Still, like muffled drums, are beating 3 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 strife! ( Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act—act. in the living Present!. Heart within, and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all reminjil >us We can make our lives sublime, And } leave Footprints on the sands of time. I that perhaps another,. Sailing o'er life's colemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked broti^er^ Seeing, shall take heart agaiitf. ' Let us, then, be up and doingk With a heart for any fate;, i Still still pursuing, \ Learn to labour and to wait./ —Longfellow. < j PEACE.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 43, 26 January 1945, Page 4
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228A PSALM OF LIFE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 43, 26 January 1945, Page 4
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