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“Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart.” This is a saying Longfellow read in Germany where his wife died. The words gave him hope for the future. It inspi ....
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In the fifth stanza Longfellow advises the reader to fight and to be active rather than sitting around in a passive way. We are told to “trust no future” because we don’t know what the future holds. We are to “act in the living present” because it is the here and now that is important and we must be concerned with worrying that the future will revisit us with the pain and suffering of our past. We are not to live in the past for being stuck in the past will get you nowhere. Then in the sixth stanza, Longfellow tells ....
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