A Psalm of Life

                                       ...Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
                                            Is our destined end or way;
                                          But to act, that each tomorrow
                                           Find us farther than today....
                                          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... A Psalm of Life

                                                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow