 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 Medical World - Page 2041892Full view - About this book
 | John Cumming - End of the world - 1862 - 550 pages
...never shall be shaded. Very sweetly does Longfellow sing of this very subject when he says : — " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ; There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But hath one vacant chair. " The air ia full of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 pages
...fire 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 lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of... | |
 | Joseph Augustus Seiss - Eschatology - 1863 - 448 pages
...home so happy, and no heart so joyous, but it has in it the deep undertones of sorrow and trouble. " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ,• There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But hath one vacant chair. The air is full... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - English poetry - 1863 - 420 pages
...camp is fled ; Faith shineth as a morning-star, Our ghastly fears are dead. HW Longfellow RESIGNATION. THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fire-side, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of... | |
 | Pulchérie Money - 1863 - 476 pages
...same great consummation, — the coming glory of the Lord!] (PM) April 9. "NOT LOST, BUT GONE BEFORE." 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... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...SHARSPERE. — King Heury VI. Part I. Act IU. Scene 1. (Gloster to the Bishop of Winchester.) VACANT.— 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. LONGPELLOW. — Resignation.... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - Working class - 1863 - 288 pages
...there was not one dead1." The poet Longfellow, in his beautiful lines on Resignation, says : — " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no household, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! " The air is full... | |
 | John Hyde - Children - 1864 - 202 pages
...the world while they are yet infants. Not more than one-half live to attain manhood or womanhood. " 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...fire 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 lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair! The air is full of farewells... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1864 - 708 pages
...all this ? Doubtless you have, for as Longfellow so touchingly and beautifully expresses it, , .. , " 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." It was in the month... | |
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