What I Live For
I live for those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true,
For Heaven that smiles above me,
And waits my spirit, too;
For all the ties that bind me,
For all the tasks assigned me.
And bright hopes left behind me,
And good that I can do.
I live to learn their story
Who’ve suffered for my sake,
To emulate their glory,
And follow in their wake;
Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,
The noble of all ages,
Whose deeds crown history’s pages,
And Time’s great volume make.
I live to hold communion
With all that is divine,
To feel there is a union
’Twixt Nature’s heart and mine;
To profit by affliction,
Reap truths from fields of fiction,
And, wiser from conviction,
Fulfil each grand design.
I live to hail that season,
By gifted minds foretold,
When men shall rule by reason,
And not alone by gold;
When man to man united,
And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted
As Eden was of old.
I live for those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true,
For Heaven that smiles above me,
And waits my spirit too;
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.
By George Linnaeus Banks
George Linnaeus Banks was born on 2 March 1821 in Birmingham, England as the son of a seedsman. He was a member of the Methodist denomination of Christianity and was married to writer Isabella Banks. After trying several types of manual labor and trades, he eventually became a journalist, a newspaper editor, a poet, a playwright, a dabbler in acting, and an orator. George Linnaeus Banks passed on at 60 years of age on 3 May 1881 in Dalston, Hackney, England.
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I live for those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true,
For Heaven that smiles above me,
And waits my spirit, too;
For all the ties that bind me,
For all the tasks assigned me.
And bright hopes left behind me,
And good that I can do.
I live to learn their story
Who’ve suffered for my sake,
To emulate their glory,
And follow in their wake;
Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,
The noble of all ages,
Whose deeds crown history’s pages,
And Time’s great volume make.
I live to hold communion
With all that is divine,
To feel there is a union
’Twixt Nature’s heart and mine;
To profit by affliction,
Reap truths from fields of fiction,
And, wiser from conviction,
Fulfil each grand design.
I live to hail that season,
By gifted minds foretold,
When men shall rule by reason,
And not alone by gold;
When man to man united,
And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted
As Eden was of old.
I live for those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true,
For Heaven that smiles above me,
And waits my spirit too;
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.
By George Linnaeus Banks
George Linnaeus Banks was born on 2 March 1821 in Birmingham, England as the son of a seedsman. He was a member of the Methodist denomination of Christianity and was married to writer Isabella Banks. After trying several types of manual labor and trades, he eventually became a journalist, a newspaper editor, a poet, a playwright, a dabbler in acting, and an orator. George Linnaeus Banks passed on at 60 years of age on 3 May 1881 in Dalston, Hackney, England.
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the next article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about The Meaning and Purpose of Life” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
