Our roster thins; as years pass on we drop off one by one; Ere long, too soon, to yearly call, there will be answer--none; Then as along the record page these mourning columns creep, The whisper comes to closer still our living friendships keep.
Dodge poignantly acknowledges the passing of time and the dwindling number of veterans.
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