What! can there yet be House and members here,
And no John A.?
So long all hearts he swayed,
Like merry monarch of some olden time,
Whose subjects questioned not his right divine,
But just obeyed
His will's e'en faintest breath.
We had forgotten, 'midst affairs of State,
'Midst Hansard, Second Readings and Debate,
Such things as death!