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awe, the ministers of the several churches and of the Old Meeting- 

 House ; here are others with even better right, — an old gray- 

 headed man who leans upon the arm of no stalwart son ; a 

 black-robed woman who, standing by a low flower-covered mound, 

 will never again hear her bright boy's "Mother;" a younger 

 woman, too, but also past the meridian of life, leaning against a 

 stone bearing a soldier's name, and beside which flutters a little 



SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT. 

 Erected by the Town; Dedicated June 17, 1870. 



flag, — a woman whose wearied face with its far-away look is full 

 for a moment of the bright but never-to-be-fulfilled promise of the 

 thirty years ago ; yes, and others still whose short happiness was 

 almost effaced by the sorrow which time has hardly yet softened 



