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Excerpt from Official Program and Pictorial Souvenir of the 36th Annual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic: Washington D. C., October, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th, 1902 The Meeting. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. After so long an absence At last we meet again; Does the meeting give us pleasure, Or does it give us pain? The tree of life has been shaken, And but few of us linger now, Like the prophet's two or three berries In the top of the uppermost bough. We cordially greet each other In the old familiar tone; And we think, though we do not say it, How old and gray he has grown. We speak of friends and their fortunes, And of what they did and said, Till the dead alone seem living, And the living alone seem dead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.