| William M. Thayer - 1856 - 314 páginas
...are most grateful. Life has too many illustrations of this fact to make additional proof necessary. " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has a vacant chair." But the Saviour never leaves nor forsakes his friends. " Lo, I am with you alway,... | |
| William Bacon Stevens - 1856 - 370 páginas
...is made, which, perhaps, may never more be filled. There is much of truth in the touching words of Longfellow : "There is no flock, however watched and...But one dead lamb is there ; There is no fireside, howsoe'cr defended, But has one vacant chair !" " The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1856 - 754 páginas
...them return," and oh, It* we feel for them in ^their lsee!; home ! "There is no flock, however wttch'd and tended. But one dead lamb is there ; There is...fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair." Busy memory is bringing r-- images, and for a moment is alffiiK forgotten the bright hope of imomrtality... | |
| HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 páginas
...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... | |
| HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 páginas
...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.... | |
| Margaret Fraser Barbour - 1856 - 406 páginas
...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... | |
| 1897 - 404 páginas
...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... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1856 - 388 páginas
...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 ; There is no fireside, bowsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair." It is as bright and balmy a morning in summer as ever... | |
| John William Marsh - 1857 - 444 páginas
...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... | |
| William G. Cambridge - 1857 - 468 páginas
...side ; and there were more flowers — flowers which were watered with tears ! 0 ! how true it is, " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! " And such is life! — the old must die, and the young may. It seems meet that the aged should be... | |
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