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ButterflyEffect · 3390 days ago · link · · parent · post: 11th Occasional Give Us a Quote from Your Recent Reading
The friends I left that parting day,
How changed, as time has sped!
Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray,
And half of all are dead. I hear the loved survivors tell
How nought from death could save,
Till every sound appears a knell,
And every spot a grave.
From My Childhood Home I See Again by Abraham Lincoln. I range the fields with pensive tread,
And pace the hollow rooms,
And feel (companion of the dead)
I’m living in the tombs.