The last of that fair band.
"And parted thus, they rest, who played
Beneath the same green tree;
Whose voices mingled as they prayed
Around one parent knee!"
It is thus in almost every household. The members may be divided into two classes,—the present and the absent ones. Who may not say of his family—
"We are not all here!
Some are away—the dead ones dear,
Who thronged with us this ancient hearth,
And gave the hour of guiltless mirth.