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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... "
A Manual of American Literature: Designed for the Use of Schools of Advanced ... - Page 55
by Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 364 pages
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - 1871 - 1146 pages
...touching words of Longfellow — " There is no fireside liowso'er defended, But haa one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying And mournings...Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted." That is a true picture of the state of things in those ravaged and desolated provinces ; and is not...
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Progressive Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse

Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 pages
...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 Eachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1853 - 588 pages
...has not healed the breach or closed the wound. Our "fire-side has one vacant chair;" but " Let us bo patient, these severe afflictions Not from the ground...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." Young friends ! how eloquent is her early grave ! Our Jane was 1 6 years of age when she died. How...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1851 - 592 pages
...one dead lamb is there 1 There's no fireside, howsoe'er defended, Bat has one vacant chair ! The ah- is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachael, for her children crying. Will not be comforted 1 Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions...
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The Children's Magazine and Missionary Repository, Volume 19

1856 - 1026 pages
...lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ; The air is fall of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead...for her children crying Will not be comforted ? Let ns he patient; these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise. But oftentimes celestial benedictions...
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The Gospel herald; or, Poor Christian's magazine, Volume 49

1881 - 396 pages
...howsoe'er defended, Rut has one vacant chair. " The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mourning for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying, "Will not be comforted." And so if you have not as yet seen the sepulchre in your garden, believe me it is not very far off....
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 24

1850 - 642 pages
...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...severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But often timos celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see out dimly through the mists and...
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The Church

1868
...waves and billows pass over us, and we are made to possess wearisome nights and troublesome days : " Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions Not from...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours : Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant...
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The Churchman's companion, Volume 11

1852 - 788 pages
...bring her out of her present darkness, into a most marvellous light. THE TWO GUARDIANS. CHAPTER XX. " Let us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from...disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid those earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant...
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The Churchman's companion

1871 - 498 pages
...howe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mourning for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying, Will not be comforted." LONQFELtOW. " IL faut trouver le bourreau de poste ' premier ' chose," said a portly Englishman, with...
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