 | John William Marsh - 1857 - 444 σελίδες
...over the heads with chain " (Signed) WH MOHSHEAD, Captain. " Rear-Admiral Moresby, CB" CHAPTER XIII. There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise ; But oftentimes celestial... | |
 | Sarah White Taber - 1857 - 78 σελίδες
...memory. " Resignation " seems now to belong to her. Did she feel, as she so beautifully repeated, " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...fireside howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! " Did she feel that ere long that vacant chair would be found by their own fireside ? We cannot tell... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1857 - 200 σελίδες
...above, to be there kept secure until the old sheep should follow. Beautifully has the poet said, — There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, But has a vacant chair. She is not dead— the child of our affection — But gone unto that school Where she... | |
 | 1857 - 372 σελίδες
...not his own Son." The infant spirit bowed its head, — " Thy will, O God, be done!" RESIGNATION. HW LONGFELLOW. THERE is no flock, however watched and...there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 σελίδες
...thou hast lifted the pall From its faults and its fallings, — yet lovest me with all RESIGNATION. There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 σελίδες
...of God had blest; And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest ! FROM LEIGH HDNT. L.— RESIGNATION. THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But...fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps; What seem to us but sad, funereal... | |
 | 1858 - 402 σελίδες
...sandals of light, that she finds the name of the wearer under the Ens ?" That when the poet sighed, »'There is no flock, however watched and tended,...But one dead lamb is there — There is no fireside howso'er defended, But has one vacant chair ; " or when he who sang the " Air of Palestine," declared... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 584 σελίδες
...they take their flight. So sings the Christian poet ; and another, coming still nearer to the heart, There Is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb Is there I In plain prose, and yet poetically, a writer in the Olive Branch, the editor, we suppose, describes... | |
 | 1859 - 926 σελίδες
...chalice pressed to their own lips, and felt that the draught was too powerful for their own strength. " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! " MESSES. EDITORS : — Another specimen of the little Book of Devotional Poetry from which " I hold... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Robinson - 1859 - 220 σελίδες
...the sky, And let the tombs reply ! For seed, that waits the harvest time is there. MBS. HEMANS. 662. There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, J3ut has one vacant chair. LONGFELLOW. 663. He takes the terror from the tomb, And strews rich germs... | |
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The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient! 
