Raise Up and Make a Change

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 art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.

A PSALM OF LIFE Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

This excerpt for Longfellow's poem, A Psalm of Life, especially the last verse reminds of the loss in our modern society.

Enjoyment was not an American goal, but to self-educate and make oneself better so as to be able to help grow our nation and maintain it freedoms.

Until we remember what it is to be "an American" we will continue to loose our freedoms and our status as a "beacon on a hill" for the world.

Assignment:
Read the United State Constitution and the Deceleration of Independence to remember why this land was created. Then work to become "an American," not as the slaves of Rome - too distracted by entertainment to raise up and make a change.