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| "Shepherdess With Her Sheep" by Jean Francois Millet |
Camille Saint-Saens, composer of "The Carnival of the Animals" also composed Piano Concerto No. 2. Click on the link below to listen to it played. You-tube has several different performances of this concerto if you want to listen to different ones and compare them. I liked the performance of the second link better except that the picture and sound get out of sync after a few minutes. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlB6plYea7U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPe5maRne_Y
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
Tell me not in mournful numbers,Life is but an 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 are, to dust thou returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
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 o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solenm 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 pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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