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– eab, Jan. 2015
Posted in eabits, holy living, philosophy, tagged enjoy, essential, freedom from sin, liberty, life, true liberty on March 2, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Life is essential to enjoy liberty *
Liberty is essential to enjoy life. – eab, 3/2/09
* true liberty is freedom from sin.
Posted in born today, christmas poems, philosophy, today in history, tagged 1807, A Psalm of Life, achieving, America, Art is long, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”, battle, be up and doing, bivouac of Life, born this date, dead, dead Past, died 3/24/1882, dumb driven cattle, empty dream, Footprints on the sands of time, funeral marches, God o'erhead, great men, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, How Blest Are Ye, learn to labor, learn to wait, life, Life is earnest!, Life is real!, living Present, Maine, muffled drums, not enjoyment, not sorrow, OH, one of the greatest poets, Portland, Pursuing, shipwrecked brother, solemn main, soul, sublime, the grave, Time is fleeting, today in history, world's broad field on February 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
“A Psalm of Life”
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 goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the 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,
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 !
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 !
Heart within, and God o’erhead !
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 again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born this date (2/27/1807) in Portland, Maine.
He was one of the greatest poets of America. See also his “Oh, How Blest Are Ye Whose Toils Are Ended” And his well known Christmas Carol “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” He died 3/24/1882.
Posted in eabits, holy living, philosophy, tagged a maze, grace, has to be amazing, life on February 25, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Posted in eabits, philosophy, tagged darkness, death, life, light on February 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Death is like darkness
– it must flee when Life and Light approaches. – eab, 2/10/09
Posted in eabits, philosophy, uncategorized, tagged 1982, complete, Cross-referenced, life on November 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Posted in fall, nature, poem, uncategorized, tagged 1965, brief, brittle, Cincinnati, college student, fall, frost, leaf, life, lost, OH, Ohio, poem on September 30, 2008| 2 Comments »
The breeze came and turned it a little.
The frost made it slightly brittle.
The wind hit it in the middle.
And the rain ended the riddle.
It was a leaf.
It was down with many another;
Maybe a sister or a brother,
On that branch over yonder,
Before the rend made them wander.
Its life was brief. – eab, 10/65
Written while a college student, Cincinnati,Ohio
Posted in poem, tagged 1982, age, Christ Academy, Christ College, Friendsville, life, milkweed pod, poem, roots in the sod, seeds, seeds are like years, Tennessee, TN, wind, years, youth on September 24, 2008| 1 Comment »
Life is like the milkweed pod;
Head in the air, roots in the sod,
Tender in youth, stiffer with age,
Little in green, older in beige.
Seeds are like years, sprinkled to the wind,
The start known; unknown the fluffy end.
Life is like the milkweed pod.
-eab, 10/82
Written while at Christ College and Academy,Friendsville,Tennessee
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