 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 pages
...while I kissed him, I felt his lips grow cold. " There u no flock, however watched and tended, Bat one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair!" True, too true ; but there are few where all the chairs are vacant, save one—perhaps few in the world.... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 pages
...half-suppressed sigh to the lips of those who observe it. " There u no flock, however watched and tended, Bat one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair !" True, too true ; but there are few where all the chairs are vacant, save one — perhaps few in... | |
 | Margaret Fraser Barbour - Children - 1856 - 406 pages
...darkened, her hope for time gone out, but she remains strong and joyful too ; — SHE HATH HER PETITION. There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there I — There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! — The earth is full of... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...mingled with the other passengers, and who seemed always communing with himself, suddenly commenced: 'There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there.' He repeated only a few stanzas, but could apparently have given the whole poem, had he wished. "For... | |
 | American Medical Association. Section on pediatrics - 1903 - 262 pages
...of the attention it so richly deserves, then The air so full of farewells to the dying, And mourning for the dead; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. will find less application than of old. After the loss of one of his children the poet Longfellow said... | |
 | United States. Congress - Legislators - 1953 - 116 pages
...Nation has lost a great public servant, and we have lost a very dear friend. Mr. NEELY. Mr. President There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. Soon after the adjournment of the last session of the 82d Congress, the grim-visaged reaper, whose... | |
 | United States. Congress - Legislators - 1953 - 118 pages
...Nation has lost a great public servant, and we have lost a very dear friend. Mr. NEELY. Mr. President There Is no flock, however watched and tended, But...Rachel, for her children crying. Will not be comforted. Soon after the adjournment of the last session of the 82d Congress, the grim-visaged reaper, whose... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1881 - 654 pages
...SHADOW. Claiming a poet's licence, Longfellow has sung with all the pathos of a plaintive minor — '' There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair." The hyperbole comes so near to the expression of literal fact, that we do not care to challenge its strict... | |
 | Genealogy - 1881 - 1148 pages
...relative. The burial ground is looked upon as a sad, lonely place. In the graveyard silent death reigns. " There is no flock however watched and tended, But...dead lamb is there; There is no fireside, howsoe'er defend, But has one vacant chair."- — LONGFELLOW Farnsworth cemetery is on Benj. J. Farnsworth's... | |
 | Vera Brittain - Authors, English - 1994 - 676 pages
...absorbing stress, a quotation from Longfellow slipped, unimpeded by literary eclecticism, into my diary : The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings...Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted. The determination to work hard and to plan out the days so that each moment would be occupied became... | |
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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... 
