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Michigan Macomb County
And can you not understand me when I say that I seem to dream that I am dreaming? Is it real ? Are these the streets I first began to tread ? Was it on yonder hillside that I first lingered to behold the glories of the setting sun as the lengthening shadows spread their beautiful yet sombre drapery on all the woodland far away, stirred in heart by strange emotions I knew not.
how to formulate ?
Yes, there is that hillside, crowned now as not then with beautiful homes, and there far away stretches that grand old forest, wasting and waning before the hand of toil, and there are faces here and there before me that tell me of the former years, and brows that are frosted by the silvery touch of time, so that despite the changes that have come to me and to all I see around me, I am constrained to the conclusion that this is verily my childhood home And so I, your child of other years, come back to rehearse to you my childhood memories—memories that have
stood the test of time, while my work was otherwhere, till my form is growing old, and my locks are growing gray.
Early Macomb County
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