Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States: Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Harold L. Gunnels, Late a Representative from New Mexico : Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 55 pages

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Page 11 - 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 sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn 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...
Page 11 - Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. 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...
Page 11 - 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.
Page 54 - Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased.
Page 54 - The SPEAKER. The question is on agreeing to the resolution. The resolution was agreed to.
Page 54 - The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the request of the Senator from Michigan?
Page 8 - RUNNELS was one of the finest men it has ever been my privilege to know.
Page 46 - Speaker, it was with great sadness that I learned of the death of my friend and colleague, CHARLES M.
Page 33 - I rise to join with my colleagues in the House of Representatives in paying tribute to Congressman BILL NICHOLS, whose sudden death on December 13 was a tremendous loss to the people of this Nation.

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