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Excerpt from Eulogy on the Life and Character of Rev. Zachariah Greene, a Patriot of the Revolution, and Late Senior Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Setauket, N. Y: Delivered at the Request of the Citizens of Hempstead, February 10th, 1859
Who of as does not remember that last festive occasion on which we were gathered around him? Who does not call to mind that last annual feast of commemoration, when, with heart beating to heart, with eye kindling to eye, with feeling responsive to feeling, we met around that venerable man to mingle our congratulations, upon the ninety-eighth annivers ary Of his birth. From far and near, kindred, friends, and neighbors had come to join in prayer, and praise, and thanks giving, over that great Heavenly mercy which had lengthened out his life to such an unwonted age. We saw him then in all the strength and the ?ower Of a beautiful old age. We saw him towering, like a rock in mid-ocean, against whose front the winds and waves of time had beat in vain; and when we separated, it was amid mutual promises, and hopes, and gladsome anticipations, all looking to a future meeting. But, alas for human hopes and human assurances! That festive reunion was destined never to occur again in time. The shadow, which no mortal eye can see, was already upon the dial-plate of life; and it was foreordained that the aged pilgrim should soon find rest on the thither shore of Jordan. A few short months, - a few waning moons, - a summer's harvest, - a fall of dry leaves in the forest, - and how changed is all! How changed the place; how changed the motive, how changed the spirit of our assemblage! Where before was mirth, there is mourning. Where before was gladness, there is gloom. Where before was life, there is death, dark ness, desolation. And now, instead of weaving laurel wreaths for living brows, we can only bring branches of palm and cypress and myrtle to deck the fresh turf on his grave.
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