1. resignation
  2. English

  • Resignation

    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 crying,
      Will not be comforted!

    Let us be patient! These severe...

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • The Resignation

    O God, whose thunder shakes the sky,
      Whose eye this atom globe surveys,
    To thee, my only rock, I fly,
      Thy mercy in thy justice praise.

    The mystic mazes of thy will,
      The shadows of celestial light,
    Are past the power of human skill;
      But what the Eternal acts is right.

    Oh, teach me in the trying hour,
      When...

    Thomas Chatterton