Oh! many are the mansions there,[374]

But not in one hath grief a share!

No haunting shade from things gone by

May there o’ersweep th’ unchanging sky.

And they are there, whose long-loved mien

In earthly home no more is seen;

Whose places, where they smiling sate,

Are left unto us desolate.

We miss them when the board is spread;

We miss them when the prayer is said;