Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1852-11-05
RicirMoYD, Va

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RIcnMoYD, Va,
Five O'clock 4. VI. April %. 1852.
My Dear Friend Whether II be a favor or
an ANNOYANCE, you owe this letter 10 my early
habits Of rising From the hour marked al the
top Of the page, you viii naturally conclude
that my companions are not nov engaging my
attention. rs We have not calculated on beng
early travellers TO day.
This cry has n pheasant seat Il IS hgb;
the James river runs below IL, and when |
went ont, an hour ago, nothing was heard bat
the roar Of the Falls. The air u tranquil and
ITS temperature mild. II IS morning. and
morning sweet aud fresh, ond delightful
Everybody knows he morning inits metapho-
real sense, applied to many occasions. The
health, strength, nad beauty Of carly years lead
as ID call that period the morning of life OF
a lovely young woman we say she is "bright
as tho morning and no one doubts why Luci-
fer is called son Of the morning"
Bat the morning itself. few people inhabi-
tanls OF cities, know anything about. Among
all our good people. not one in thousand secs
the sun rise once in year. They know moth
ing Of the morning. Their idea Of II is that It
is that part Of the day which comes along after
cup Of coffee, aud beef steak or piece OF
toast Wth them morning IS not a new issu-
ing Of light. new bursting forth Of the sun,
new waking mp Of all that has Iic from a sort
oftcmporary death, To behold again the works
Of God, the heavens and the earth, II - only
part of the domestinc day, belonging to read
ing the new spapers, answering notes, senGing
the children 10 school, and giving orders for
dinner. The FIRST sircak Of light the earliest
purplng Of the cast which the lark springs up
to greet, mud the deeper and deeper cooring
into orange au1 red tiil al length the GLORIOUS
sun IS seen, regent of the day"-thist hcy never
enjoy for they never sec It.
Beautiful descriptions Of the morning a.
bound in all aguages, bat they are the strong
est, perhaps, IL The East, where the sun is Of
ten an object of worship
King David speaks Of linking to himself tho
"wings of the morning" This is highly poeti-
cal and beautiful; The wings oflhe morning
are the beams of The rising sun Rays of light
are wings. II is thus SAID That the sun Of
righteousness shall arise "with healing in his
wings "a rising sun That shall scatter life,
health md JOY throughout the Universe.
Milton has fine descriptions OF morning. but
not so many as Shakespeare, from whose writ
ngs pnges of the most beautiful imagery, all
founded on the glory Of morning, might be
flied.
never thought that Adam had much The al.
vantogoo of us from having seen tho world
while it Was new.
The manifestations Of the power Of G oil,
like his mercIes, are "new every morning"
and fresh every moment.
We see MS fine rsings Of the sun as Adam
ever saw; and lsrsings are much n miracle
now as they were in his day, and think a
good deal more, becnuse II Is now part of the
miracle that for thousands and thousands of
ycors he has come to his appointed time, with.
out the yariatjonof miIlionlh part Of second.
Adam could not tell how this might be,
know the morning l am acquainted with it.
love ii flesh and sweet us II is--a daily new
creation, breaking forth and calling all that
nave life and breath and being to new adora-
ion, new engagements, aud new gratitude.
DANIEL WEBSTER.