{"id":3057,"date":"2025-01-15T16:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2025-01-15T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:40:46","slug":"psalm-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/psalm-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"type-paragraph-sm rich-text pl-6 italic\">\n<div>What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"relative\" data-v-1a293654=\"\">\n<div class=\"annotations-active\" data-v-1a293654=\"\">\n<div class=\"rich-text copy-large\" data-v-1a293654=\"\" data-v-22a4749a=\"\">\n<div class=\"poem-body overflow-x-auto\" data-v-22a4749a=\"\">\n<div>Tell me not, in mournful numbers,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Life is but an empty dream!<\/div>\n<div>For the soul is dead that slumbers,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And things are not what they seem.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Life is real! Life is earnest!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And the grave is not its goal;<\/div>\n<div>Dust thou art, to dust returnest,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Was not spoken of the soul.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Is our destined end or way;<\/div>\n<div>But to act, that each to-morrow<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Find us farther than to-day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Art is long, and Time is fleeting,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And our hearts, though stout and brave,<\/div>\n<div>Still, like muffled drums, are beating<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Funeral marches to the grave.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the world\u2019s broad field of battle,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the bivouac of Life,<\/div>\n<div>Be not like dumb, driven cattle!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Be a hero in the strife!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trust no Future, howe\u2019er pleasant!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Let the dead Past bury its dead!<\/div>\n<div>Act,\u2014 act in the living Present!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Heart within, and God o\u2019erhead!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lives of great men all remind us<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We can make our lives sublime,<\/div>\n<div>And, departing, leave behind us<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Footprints on the sands of time;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Footprints, that perhaps another,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sailing o\u2019er life\u2019s solemn main,<\/div>\n<div>A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Seeing, shall take heart again.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let us, then, be up and doing,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With a heart for any fate;<\/div>\n<div>Still achieving, still pursuing,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Learn to labor and to wait.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( American Unitarian)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And things are not what they seem. Life is real! 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