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
| 1901 - 776 pages
...What I have longed for all the time was the blessedness of motherhood!" THE PASSING. JSusa A. Talmage. "There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb Is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended. But has one empty chair." Agnes had been my dearest... | |
| 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 one dead lamb is there. There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. The air is full of farewells... | |
| 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 one dead lamb Is there. There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. The air is full of farewells... | |
| 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 one dead lamb is there ; There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair." The hyperbole comes... | |
| 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 one dead lamb is there; There is no fireside, howsoe'er defend, But has one vacant chair."- — LONGFELLOW Farnsworth... | |
| Poetry - 1982 - 348 pages
...for a moment on the soldier's face, And with his one last breath he whispered, "Here!" Author Unknown 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... | |
| Catharine Parr Traill - Fiction - 1999 - 239 pages
...o'er the plain. Oh, wail for the forest, its glories are o'er!26 THE FIRST DEATH IN THE CLEARING*' "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." — Longfellow2 ONE... | |
| Bud Wagner - World War, 1939-1945 - 2000 - 564 pages
...of being just discharged from the service, and of those who I know full well won't be coming back. 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. Bob and Jean Vaughn are... | |
| Joseph A. Seiss - Religion - 540 pages
...death ! Whom has it not touched ! What circle has it not invaded ! What home has it never entered I 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. Around our churches... | |
| Charles C. Calhoun - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 358 pages
...grief in the poem " Resignation," one of his most popular short pieces among his Victorian readers. There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoever defended, But has no vacant chair.... The poem, published... | |
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