 | William G. Cambridge - 1857 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | William Henry R. Jones - 1857 - 284 pages
...o'clock, and at half-past eight, on the same evening, he was seized with a fit, and immediately expired. ' There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...fire-side, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair.' ' It was a solemn season. Our child appeared to have taken possession of the lonely grave as the representative... | |
 | Sarah White Taber - 1857 - 78 pages
...memory. " Resignation " seems now to belong to her. Did she feel, as she so beautifully repeated, " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...fireside howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! " Did she feel that ere long that vacant chair would be found by their own fireside ? We cannot tell... | |
 | John William Marsh - 1857 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | 1929 - 80 pages
...relatives of our friend and colleague who has been summoned into the misty beyond, and so we see that — There is no flock, however watched and tended, But...fireside howsoe'er defended But has one vacant chair. And so this afternoon we look out for a little while over that boundless sea on whose bosom all sails... | |
 | 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...There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended. But has one empty chair." Agnes had been my dearest friend. We had always been so full of life and vigor that when... | |
 | 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 - 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 - 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... | |
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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... 
