...the habitations of the dead ! " Life is short, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, thongh strong and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave." Does the shuttle cease to ply, when the web has been fully woven ? In like manner, when the great web...

...this morning, I could not help thinking of those lines in the psalm : " ' Our hearts, though strong and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.' " " Well, dear Annie, returned her mother, smiling, though it is right and needful to meditate sometimes...

...the victory. If you would be His followers, be prepared to take up each his cross, and follow Him : "Art is long, and Time is fleeting: And our hearts,...muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, iearn to...

...lies, And flowers of Eden fringe it round. LINES ON THE DEATH OF BB THATCHER. BY ISAAC M'LELLAN. JR. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,...muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. LONGFELLOW, HARK ! the funeral bell is tolling — Calling to the grave's retreat ; And the funeral...

...soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting,...brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marehes to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb,...

...stanza which he is accused of plagiarising, is, perhaps, the most elegant and finished in the piece : " Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave." It is said, that the idea on which the last three lines of this stanza turn, was suggested, or, to...

...earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not written of the soul. Art is long, and time is fleeting. And our hearts,...muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead-past bury its dead! Act — act in the living Present...

...unseen world ! How rapidly are the moments flying past us in which we are to work for God and man! " Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave." Such being the case, let us, my brother-disciples, make the best use of the seasons and means of doing...

...soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting,...though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, arc beating Funeral marches to the grave. Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife...

...is felt, no image comes over the soul with more power than that which we owe to a living writer : * OUR hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled...drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.'* But though the fancy may he pleased or the imagination aroused, or the judgment convinced by such statements,...