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AN OLD MAN'S REMINISCENCE.
The writer's grandfather, an old revolutionary officer, now on the verge of ninety-two, paid a visit several years since to a house in the city of Albany, in which, more than half a century before, he had been married. The touching narration of his feelings, as he stood in that time-worn apartment, suggested the following lines.
An old man stood in a serious mood, within an ancient room, And o'er his features gathered fast, a shade of deepest gloom, While to his eye, bedimmed with age, came up the gushing tears, As memory from her hidden caves, recalled long buried years.
