The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
[Lat., Cineri gloria sera est.]

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
[Lat., Cineri gloria sera est.]

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
[Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
[Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of read more

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.