20대 초반에 자주 낭송했던 인생예찬.
'인생이라는 전장에서 말 못하고 쫒기는 마소가 되지 말고 싸우는 영웅이 되라'
내 인생에 많은 힘을 주었던 인생의 예찬이다.
A Psalm of Life
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but and 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 of way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us further than today.
Art is long, and time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are geating
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's o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, deprting, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailling 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 pursing,
Learn to labor and to wait.