{"id":7141,"date":"2013-04-25T15:33:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T21:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=7141"},"modified":"2013-04-25T15:33:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T21:33:33","slug":"art-is-long-and-time-is-fleeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=7141","title":{"rendered":"Art is Long, and Time is fleeting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Psalm of Life<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\nTell me not, in mournful numbers,<br \/>\n  Life is but an empty dream!&#8211;<br \/>\nFor the soul is dead that slumbers,<br \/>\n  And things are not what they seem.<\/p>\n<p>Life is real! Life is ernest!<br \/>\nAnd the grave is not its goal;<br \/>\nDust thou art, and dust returnest<br \/>\nWas not spoken of the soul.<\/p>\n<p>Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,<br \/>\n  Is our destined end or way;<br \/>\nBut to act, that each to-morrow<br \/>\n  Find us farther than to-day.<\/p>\n<p>Art is long, and time is fleeting,<br \/>\n  And our hearts, though stout and brave,<br \/>\nStill like muffled drums, are beating<br \/>\n  Funeral marches to the grave.<br \/>\n<a title=\"P1040956 by banjobear, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60141310@N00\/8318462249\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8075\/8318462249_767aeccffc.jpg\" alt=\"P1040956\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the world&#8217;s broad field of battle,<br \/>\n  in the bivouac of Life,<br \/>\nBe not dumb, driven cattle!<br \/>\n  Be a hero in the strife!<\/p>\n<p>Trust no future, howe&#8217;er pleasant!<br \/>\n  Let the dead Past bury its dead!<br \/>\nAct,&#8211;in the living present!<br \/>\n  Heart within, and God o&#8217;erhead!<\/p>\n<p>Lives of great men all remind us<br \/>\n  We can make our lives sublime,<br \/>\nAnd, departing, leave behind us<br \/>\n  Footprints on the sands of time;<\/p>\n<p>Footprints, that perhaps another,<br \/>\n  Sailing o&#8217;er the solemn main,<br \/>\nA forlorn and shipwrecked brother,<br \/>\n  Seeing, shall take heart again.<\/p>\n<p>Let us, then, be up an doing,<br \/>\n  With a heart for any fate;<br \/>\nStill achieving, Still pursuing,<br \/>\n  Learn to labor and to wait.<\/p>\n<p>By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Psalm of Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!&#8211; For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is ernest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, and dust returnest Was not spoken of the soul. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7141"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8547,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions\/8547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}