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Michigan Macomb County
Are those that lived and walked beside us, and cheered us on the way—those that slumber on the yonder green hillside—are they to meet us here never again? And they answer, " Never again."
And again I ask them, Is there an utter severance of ourselves from all that has gone before? Will they not speak to us by tender memories, tried and true ? And the years are answering, " By tender memories, tried and true." And this is the language of this hour, as the breathings of affection wake those tender cords to harmonies which this, day has the right to inspire.
Is it not meet then, that I with unskilled hand should hesitate to touch the delicate strings and seek responses befitting the hour? And I am grappling with another question here and now, that of my own personal identity. Am I not a stranger in your midst? How then shall I,, a stranger, subserve the object of your gathering? The thoughts that come to me from out the past seem like veriest dreams.
Early Macomb County
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