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

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

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.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

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.]

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.

Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.

Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world.
[Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]

Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world.
[Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]