Excerpt from Meditations of Solitude And amid the stirring contest, Up the chairman rose and said: If you want to keep good order, You had better cool your head. 80 the closing of the evening And the gathering there that night, When those brothers had got settled And decided not to fight. Then I heard a stirring sermon By an elder grand and meek, And he told us of the afterwards In a mighty solemn speech. Yes, he took them from the cradle, And he tracked them to the grave Why he took them on an ocean, And he drowned them in the wave. So, on Saturday, they started In the work as brothers should, So the body was in earnest, Or it seemed they understood. Then I sat among the brothers In my good old-fashion way, Sure I love to go to meeting, When the people go to pray. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.