 THERE is no flock, however watched and tended But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children...  The Native Poets of Maine - Page 22by S. Herbert Lancey - 1854 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Anna Atkins - 1853 - 314 pages
...loaded basket in his arms, and has broken his collar-bone — you remember him — old Ben Harris." " Let us be patient : these severe afflictions Not from...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." But for some such feeling the intelligence thus conveyed to Junie would have been utterly overwhelming.... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1853 - 410 pages
...in sorrow, " Can I bring him back again ? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me !" There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead...there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But hath one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells for the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The... | |
 | Camilla Crosland - 1853 - 440 pages
...one truth, though — that for the present I am in love only with — my Art!" CHAPTER XIV. " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howe'er defended, But has one vacant chair! " LONGFELLOW. " Do not ask me, dearest Margaret — as... | |
 | 1853 - 888 pages
...Footsteps of Angela," or its twin gem, " Resignation," from which we extract the following : — " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, hawsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! " The air is full of farewells to the dying, And meunrings... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 290 pages
...in this depressed state, that we have nothing to be thankful for. RESIGNATION. HW LONGFELLOW. THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ; There is no fireside, howsoc'er defended, But has one vacant chair. The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings... | |
 | Martha Stone Hubbell - 1853 - 364 pages
...sorts o' people to make a world, and I'm glad I a' n't one of 'em.' " CHAPTER XXVIII. " There 's not a flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ; There 's not a household, howsoo'er defended, But has one vacant chair." • IT is March again. The pastor's... | |
 | Christian wreath - 1853 - 296 pages
...Englishman. " Yes," replied De Burgh, " it is the common lot. " ' There is no flock, however watch'd and tended, But one dead lamb is there ; There is no fireside, howe'er defended, But has one vacant chair.' " " However," continued the old man, clearing his voice,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1854 - 292 pages
...God and ours. Why mourn their translation ? Why indulge the selfishness of grief? RESIGNATION. THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, Hay... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 472 pages
...without that burned, The thoughts that burned and glowed within BY THE FIRESIDE. RESIGNATION. THERE is no flock, however watched and tended But one dead...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. i We see but dimly through the mists and vapon Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal... | |
 | William Bacon Stevens - 1854 - 418 pages
...perhaps, may never more be filled. There is much of truth in the touching words of Longfellow : " There la no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead...Rachel for her children crying, Will not be comforted!" But is there no comfort for such ? Is there no hope in the coffin where the infant lies ? Is the child's... | |
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