A Psalm of Life :What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist Let us, then, be up and doing,      With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing,      Learn to labor and to wait. In 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the didactic A Psalm of Life in … Continue reading Translating Longfellow: A Psalm of Life “What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist”