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Answering a reader's question about the poem in 1879, Longfellow himself summarized that the poem was "a transcript of my thoughts and feelings at the time I wrote, and of the conviction therein expressed, that Life is something more than an idle dream." [13] Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a "lesson of endurance". [14]
"Footprints," also known as "Footprints in the Sand," is a popular modern allegorical Christian poem. It describes a person who sees two pairs of footprints in the sand, one of which belonged to God and another to themselves. At some points the two pairs of footprints dwindle to one; it is explained that this is where God carried the protagonist.
I wondered whether to make "The Lord" a link; The Lord goes to a page discussing what a lord is. There's obviously also God, YHWH (of which "The Lord" is a very common rendering in English, representing "Adonai"), or I suppose God of Israel, since YHWH is a page about the name and not the being, though I'm not sure everyone who uses this poem has that particular deity in mind).
Eve's footprint is the popular name for a set of fossilised footprints discovered on the shore of Langebaan Lagoon, South Africa in 1995. They are thought to be those of a female human and have been dated to approximately 117,000 years ago. This makes them the oldest known footprints of an anatomically modern human.
A footprint (replica shown) [1] carved into the rock on Dunadd, in Argyll, is linked to the crowning of the Scots kings of Dál Riata. A petrosomatoglyph is a supposed image of parts of a human or animal body in rock.
A 10-year-old found 220-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Wales while fossil hunting.. Tegan Jones and her mother found the tracks, which hadn't been seen in over 140 years. An expert thinks a ...
Edgar Allan Poe observed that many experts rejected it from English metrics and concurred: The pyrrhic is rightfully dismissed. Its existence in either ancient or modern rhythm is purely chimerical, and the insisting on so perplexing a nonentity as a foot of two short syllables, affords, perhaps, the best evidence of the gross irrationality and ...
Here are the steps to take to erase your digital footprint. 1. Set your social media settings to private: "There is no good reason for your personal information to be public-facing on social media ...