 | George Canning Hill - American fiction - 1853 - 338 pages
...your dead child ; and the sad lines of the Poet sing in your sadder heart, — \ " There is no fold, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there...fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair." It is as bright and balmy a morning in summer, as ever dawned. The odors of the lilacs and laburnums... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - Future life - 1853 - 410 pages
...half 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...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 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 - Suffering - 1853 - 290 pages
...even 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... | |
 | Camilla Crosland - 1853 - 440 pages
...tell him 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... | |
 | Martha Stone Hubbell - Spouses of clergy - 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,... | |
 | William Bacon Stevens - Consolation - 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... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...be, Beyond the grave I'll meet with thee, Casa Wappy! RESIGNATION, THERE is no flock, however watch'd and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is...Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Lut us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...Kap'ture, n rapere. Ex-pan'sion, n pandere. Im-pet'u-ons, adj petere. Sanc'ti-fy-ing, part sanctus. THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But...the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel,1 for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions... | |
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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... 
