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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The colored regiments. (search)
Emerson's tribute to George L. Stearns.
Delivered in the First Parish Church of Medford on the Sunday following Major Stearns's death, April 9, 1867.
We do not know how to prize good men until they depart.
High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water for flowing or the fire for warming us. But, on the instant of their death, we wonder at our past insensibility, when we see how impossible it is to replace them.
There will be other good men, but not these again.
And the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen, the neighbor, the friend, the father, and the husband, whom this assembly mourns.
We recall the all but exclusive devotion of this excellent man during the last twelve years to public and patriotic interests.
Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man of skill
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Centennial Contributions (search)