...Son." The infant spirit bowed its head, — " Thy will, O God, be done!" RESIGNATION. HW LONGFELLOW. THERE is no flock, however watched and "tended, But...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...

...flight, The weleome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night! As of the one I love. RESIGNATION. THERE is no flock, however watched and...dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions...

...halffledged bird, skip from bough to bough, from one fragment of some one else's genius to another. Yes, " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...the dying And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Bachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let ui be patient ! these severe afflictions...

...wayward heart thou hast lifted the pall From its faults and its fallings, — yet lovest me with all RESIGNATION. There is no flock, however watched and...fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial...

...names whom love 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...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...

...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...

...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...

...poor wife, who has just lost a little child, and now this second hlow has fallen upon her. Truly, " The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead." August 20. — All goes on day by day much as usual ; we are all looking out for relief, and all experiencing...

...poor wife, who has just lost a little child, and now this second hlow has fallen upon her. Truly, " The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead." August 20. — All goes on day hy day much as usual ; we are all looking out for relief, and all experiencing...

...the tender bud of infancy, — all soon, too soon, fall before the scythe of the pitiless destroyer. "The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead." No suffering, no anguish, is like unto that of the deeply heart-stricken mourner, as he bendeth over...