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ago. Yet this is what Charles E. Wilson, a prominent lawyer
of San Francisco, did, and he said he was amply repaid.
It was quite a notable gathering: H. D. Moore of Philadel-
phia, whose business interests represent over $3,000,000; S. C.
Small of Boston, manufacturer and dealer in church and lodge
room furniture ; Geo. F. Tyler, another prominent furniture
manufacturer of Cambridge, Mass. ; Capt. Moses French, one
of Maine's most successful farmers, tilling about six hundred
acres, and others of equal note. And do you know, those men
were just as glad, apparently, to meet the writer, who is rich
only in memories of the past, as they were to meet those who
are wealthy in this world's goods.
1863—September 19— 1894.
BY JULIA S. WARDEN.
The following beautiful poem was read at the reunion of the
Second Maine Cavalry, at Gardiner
Comrades, list to the music ringing,
An echo from the voice of Time,
Call back the days of sixty-three,
But excuse my halting rhyme.
Strong the memories throng upon us,
As the years come back agam,
Crowded full of wide experience,
Some of joy and some of pain.
Afar in the misty distance,
Like a mirage from the sea,
Come scenes that glow and fade.
Come the days of sixty-three.
'Tis thirty years, my comrades,
Since the note of War's alarm,
Roused every patriot soldier.
To raise his strong right arm.
To defend our blessed Country,
To keep Old Glory and her Stars,
To crush the great Rebellion,
To do battle under Mars