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Excerpt from The Bromwell Genealogy: Including Descendants of William Bromwell and Beulah Hall With Data Relating to Others of the Bromwell Name in America "As to the Patriarchs of this Brotherhood, the Lodge they opened is closed to them on earth forever. The lights they kindled have long ceased to hum before their altar. The voice of greeting and admonition resounds not in the solitary chambers of the dead; and the swelling notes of their parting hymn hare long ago passed with the extinguished winds which bore them. Where they lie scattered in the little burying grounds a thousand leagues asunder - sleeping on the lonely desert, by the jagged bastions of the mountains, beneath the sighing branches of the trackless wilderness, by the crowded mart, or in the infinite and ever-sobbing sea, we know not, nor will we ever know; but only this, that they filled the places we fill today, joined in the same welcome, more the same badge, wrought in the same Order, bore the same jewels, taught and received the same lessons, and uttered the same farewell on the shore of the far Atlantic, as we today in the presence of the monarch mountains of the West; that one by one they laid down the rod, the jewel and the gavel; one by one surrendered the key, the pen and the scroll; one by one dropped the axe, the fascicle, and the hour-glass, and passed silently from among their brothers to the undiscovered country, and the hidden life." 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.