<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409755" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Psalm Of Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What the heart of the young man said to the psalmist<br>Tell me not, in mournful numbers,<br>Life is but an empty dream!--<br>For the soul is dead that slumbers,<br>And things are not what they seem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life is real! Life is earnest!<br>And the grave is not its goal;<br>Dust thou art, to dust returnest,<br>Was not spoken of the soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,<br>Is our destined end or way;<br>But to act, that each to-morrow<br>Find us farther than to-day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Art is long, and Time is fleeting,<br>And our hearts, though stout and brave,<br>Still, like muffled drums, are beating<br>Funeral marches to the grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the world's broad field of battle,<br>In the bivouac of Life,<br>Be not like dumb, driven cattle!<br>Be a hero in the strife!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!<br>Let the dead Past bury its dead!<br>Act,--act in the living present!<br>Heart within, and God o'erhead!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lives of great men all remind us<br>We can make our lives sublime,<br>And departing, leave behind us<br>Footprints on the sands of time;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Footprints, that perhaps another,<br>Sailing o'er life's solemn main,<br>A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,<br>Seeing, shall take heart again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us, then, be up and doing,<br>With a heart for any fate;<br>Still achieving, still pursuing,<br>Learn to labor and to wait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409755" data-title="The Psalm Of Life de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="What the heart of the young man said to the psalmist 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 go..."></div> </div> </div>

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