Excerpt from The Illustrated Comprehensive History of the Great Battle of ShilohI stand upon the prostrate trunk Of that which used to grow, The pride of all the forest here, Long years, and years, and years ago.I wandered to the school-house lawn Where once the school - house stood, Where we learned to read and Spell Such lessons as we could, And where, as months and terms ¿ew by Like ¿eeting ¿akes of snow, We learned to cipher, parse, and write, Long years, and years, and years ago.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.