text:  His sister!--and half a century has wellnigh gone past since the hot heart of the brother was stricken cold and the manly music of his voice made dumb for ever! Was it too much to believe that through these many long years of her earthly pilgrimage--sometimes we fear darkened by want and neglect--that sister had always clung to the memory of the departed dead in the hope that the day would arrive when his genius should receive the homage of a new generation to atone for the apathy and coldness of that which had passed away? What emotions must have thrilled the bosom of that venerable woman as she gazed on the stirring spectacle before her and saw her lingering hopes far more than thoroughly realized! What a glorious welcome too for the sons to their native land! They had left it--not quite as the poor man does--but with heavy difficulties before them