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Sea Green Singers - Lifes Purpose

Life's Purpose - (H.W. Longfellow)

1. Tell me not in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream
For the soul is dead that slumbers, (tenor: dead that slumbers)
and things are not what they seem
For the soul is dead that slumbers, (tenor: dead that slumbers)
and things are not what they seem, things are not what they seem.

2. Life is real, life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal
Dust thou are, to dust returnest, (tenor: dust returnest)
was not spoken of the soul.
Dust thou are, to dust returnest, (tenor: dust returnest)
was not spoken of the soul, was not spoken of the soul.

3. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way
But to act, that each tomorrow, (tenor: each tomorrow)
Find us farther than today,
But to act, that each tomorrow, (tenor: each tomorrow)
Find us farther than today, Find us farther than today.

4. Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime
And departing leave behind us, (Tenor: leave behind us)
Footprints on the sands of time.
And departing leave behind us, (Tenor: leave behind us)
Footprints on the sands of time, footprints on the sands of time

5. Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate
Still achieving still pursuing, (Tenor: still pursuing)
Learn to labor and to wait.
Still achieving still pursuing, (Tenor: still pursuing)
Learn to labor and to wait, Learn to labor and to wait