“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;”

—  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , book Voices of the Night

St. 7.
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Source: Voices of the Night

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American poet 1807–1882

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