 | Meta Lander - 1861 - 354 pages
...of everlasting joy and gladness, when we are permitted to rejoin them in the home of the blessed." There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has...Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial... | |
 | 1851 - 448 pages
...rapid cars be driven O'er the boundless path of Heaven ! EE SIGN AT I OH. (Ry Longfellow.) T. There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead...fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair! ir. The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead, The heart of Rachel, for... | |
 | Heavenly thoughts - 1851 - 318 pages
...live ; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die." — St. John, xi. 25, 26. There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead...fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! Let us take comfort ! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise ; But oftentimes celestial... | |
 | Frederick WALPOLE (Hon.) - 1851 - 478 pages
...beauty ? Alas ! so it ever is. In the beautiful words of that poet of our soul, Longfellow : " There is no flock however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there : There is no fireside, howeoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings... | |
 | J. B. Syme - 1852 - 196 pages
...supported orphans, of rejoicing, and comforted, and thankful persons. RESIGNATION. BT HW LONOrELLOW. THERB is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead...Rachel, for her children crying; Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...bleak, As they beat at the heart of the mother, Drive the colour from her cheek ? RESIGNATION. There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead...Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1852 - 314 pages
...complied with." Here is recorded an untimely birth;—and a little lower down, the mother's death. " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead...Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! " * Here is a narrative of shipwreck or of railway destruction, sweeping away human life as if it... | |
 | 1852 - 340 pages
...afflictions of the righteous -. but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. — PSALMS xxxiv. 19. THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead...fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions, Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...however watched and tended, Put one dead loml) is there ! There is no fireside, howsoc'cr defended, I?ut has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells...the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Kachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1852 - 320 pages
...with." Here is recorded an untimely birth ; — and a little lower down, the mother's death. " There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead...there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But lias one vacant chair ! " The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead; The... | |
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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... 
