Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-08-25
REALITIES OF THE MORNING.

The following beautiful extract is from familiar
letter written by Mr.. Webster while IN Virginia, q
few wears since to a friend in Boston. The extract
m one of the most striking descriptions OF the oeau
ties of the morning which we have ever reao' ana Is
an additional evidence OF the varied accohPAiSh'e
of the great statesman:
5O'CLocK, A. M, RICHMOND.
April %, lS47. !
Whether it be favor or an annoyance you owe
this letter to my habits of early rising. FROM me
hour marked the top of the page, you Will hatuld-
Iv conclude that my companions are not now engag-
1g INV attention. as we have not calculated on being
early travellers to-day. -, ~, =
This city has " pleasant seat" 1t is hlgh. Inc
lanes river runs below it. and when l went out, an
nothing was heard but the roar of the Fails.
The air is tranquil and its temperature mild: Is
morning, and morning sweet tresn ana oelighliuli
Everybody knows the morning, In It's melaPhorlcdl
sense applied to so many objects and on so many
occasions. The health, strength and beauty OF early
wears, led US to call that period, the morning OF
life" Of lovely woman, we say, she IS " orlgnt
as the morning. and one doubts why Luclfer Is
ca lied the - Son of the morning..
But the morning itself, few people, inhabitants
of cities, know anything about Among all our goou
people in thousand sees the sun rise once
wear. They know nothing of the morning. lhelr
idea of it is that it is that part of the morning which
comes after cup of coffee and beefsteak. or piece
of toast. With them morning is not new issuing
of lqht new bursting forth of the sun, new wax
ing M of all that has life, from sort OF temporary
DEATH to behold again the works of God, the heaV-
ems and the earth; it is only part OF the domesuc
day, belonging breakfast, to reading newspapers
answering notes. sending children to school, and CIV
ing orders for DINNER. The first streak OF light, the
earliest purplng of the east which the lark springs
up to greet, and the deeper and deeper coorng into
orange and red, till at length the glorious sun is
regent of the day, this they never ENJOY, lor
they never see It,
Beautiful descriptions of the IS morning abound
in all languages but they are strongest, perhaps, In
those of the East, where the sun ls often an ooJec'
of worship.
King David speaks of taking to himself the wings
of the morning. This is highly poetcal and beau
tfu. The wings of the morning are the beams OF the
rising Rays of light are wings. 1t is thus said
that the sun of righteousness shall arise with heal
ing in his wings''-a rising sun which shall scatter
life and health, and joy throughout the universe
Milton has fine descriptions of morning, but moi
so many as Shakespeare, from whose writings, pages
of the most beautiful imagery, all founded the go
nv of the morning, might BE- filled.
l never thought that Adam had much the advan
tage of US, from having seen the world while 1t was
new.
The manifestations of the power of God, like His
mercies, are " new every morning." and fresh every
moment.
! We see as fine risngs cf the sun as ever Adam
saw, and its risings are as much miracle now as
because it is part of the miracle that for thous
ands and thousands of years he has come to his ap
pointed time without the variation of miionih par
of second. Adam could not tell how this would
be. l know the morning. am acquainted with It
and love it. love it, fresh and sweet as II is
daily new creation, breaking FORTH and calling al
that have life, and breath, and being, to adora
| ton, new enjoymens and new gratitude.
| DANIEL WEBSTER.