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Reading Mass
Oct. 4 .9 [writing cut off]
My dear Grandpa; -

As I sat thinking what I could say on this fiftieth anniversary the words of Longfellow written for the anniversary of his class, came to me and with these words would I greet you
"What then? Shall we sit idly down and say the night hath come; it is no longer day?
The night hath not yet come; we are not quite but off from labor by the failing light;
Something remains forever