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 further 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 labour and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Welcome to Free2blog.com.
Free2Blog is a free-to-use weblog site owned and managed by Webniaga.

It is hoped that serious Bloggers among the M.U. Engineering Class of ‘77 who have interesting and useful information to share will make this their Home….and in so doing will leave behind their “footprints on the sands of time“.

To start your own Blog, please click on “How To Use”
and follow the instructions there.

You will have full administrator’s control over your own Blog. You can make it private or public and you can edit or remove any posting or comment as you wish. As such, don’t be afraid to try it out…no-one need to know what you have done, if you choose not to publish, or if you delete anything you don’t like. So go ahead and try it out. If you run into any difficulty, feel free to contact me for help.

When you have published your Blog, please post your URL to the Class of ‘77 YahooGroup for the classmates to view.

Enjoy!

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