John Greenleaf Whittier Quote

Time is hastening on, and we
What our fathers are shall be, —
Shadow-shapes of memory!
Joined to that vast multitude
Where the great are but the good.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be, — Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the...

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be, — Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the...

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be, — Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the...

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be, — Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the...