James Russell Lowell Quote

Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides
Into the silent hollow of the past;
What is there that abides
To make the next age better for the last?


St. 3. - Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration (July 21, 1865)


Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?

Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?

Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?

Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?