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" 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... "
A Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams: Delivered at the ... - Page 19
by Edward Everett - 1848 - 71 pages
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The baptist Magazine

1852 - 862 pages
...— London, Feb. 1852. " Footprints that perhaps another Sailing o'er life's solemn main, — Some forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. " Let us then bo up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 43

1844 - 454 pages
...of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another,...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 CIRCASSIAN...
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The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany

Christian life - 1876 - 352 pages
...in : " 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...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...
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The natural history of society in the barbarous and civilized state

William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...to future discove ,ry. To use the illustration of an American poet, he has been anxious to leave " foot-prints on the sands of time" — Foot-prints,...shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. In the discussion of such a variety of topics as necessarily enter into the complicated histories of...
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The North American Review, Volume 50

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 584 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,...take heart again. "Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to lal>or and to wait" — pp. 5-7....
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The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 2

Medicine - 1840 - 522 pages
...make 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,...shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again." Dr. Physick was born in Philadelphia, on the 7th of July, 1768, of respectable parents. His father,...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1840 - 182 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,./...shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor...
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Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society for the ..., Volume 29

New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1870 - 972 pages
...mould, had fully wrought out its mission, and that in his life's journey, he has left " Footprints in the sands of time. " Footprints that perhaps another,...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...
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE AMUSEMENT , AND INSTRUCTION : VOL V

The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V - 1844 - 440 pages
...great men all remind us ЛУe can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another,...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 CIRCASSIAN...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; 15 Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, 20 With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. LESSON...
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