 Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I Be a hero in...  Echoes from the Gun of 1861: A Book for Boys - Page 11864 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lost inheritance - 1852 - 938 pages
...to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. In the world's broad field of battle. In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I Be a hero in the strife ! IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. #£& LONDON: i v , - •. , COLBURN AND CO., PUBLISHERS, GREAT MAELBOEOU6H... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcomb - Children - 1853 - 446 pages
...drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I Be a hero in the strife I Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant I Let the dead Past bury its dead I Act,—act in the living Present... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Readers - 1854 - 336 pages
...drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle i Be a hero in the strife! Trust uo Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act—act in the living Present!... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Old age in literature - 1859 - 326 pages
...marches to the grave. . . 48 THE EVENING OF LIFK. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act ; — act in the living... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb driven cattle I 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... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - Fiction - 1860 - 528 pages
...soul echoed the sentiments of the immortal bard, and she repeated again and again the fifth verse: " In the world's broad field of battle, In the birouac of life ; Be not lite <tumb driren cattle, Be a hero in the strife." Intuitively she seemed to feel that an hour of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1861 - 396 pages
...grave. And our hearts, though stout and brave, In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I 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!... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1843 - 260 pages
...are beating Funeral marches to the grave. 5. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac1 of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I Be a hero in the strife ! 6. Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant 1 Let the dead Past bury its dead 1 Act, — act in the living... | |
 | Susan Warner - 1864 - 376 pages
...made, and they went to Brighton. CHAPTEE IV. " In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I Be a hero in the strife 1 ELEANOR was at once plunged into a whirl of engagements, with acquaintances new and old. And the... | |
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