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Title: George L. Stearns Author: John Greenleaf Whittier [More Titles by Whittier] No man rendered greater service to the cause of freedom than Major Stearns in the great struggle between invading slave-holders and the free settlers of Kansas. He has done the work of a true man,-- O dusky mothers and daughters, For the warmest of hearts is frozen, No duty could overtask him, He forgot his own soul for others, So the bed was sweet to die on, And he saw ere his eye was darkened Ah, well! The world is discreet; Plucked off the old bark when the inner Never rode to the wrong's redressing 1867 [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |