The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-07-28
The Morning.

The Morning.
1t is interesting to ccnt' mi late the
great statesman, DANIEL WEBSTER, in
the light of tn e following, extracts
from private letter from him, writ
t,l at RicAn)nl, Va, in April,
1917. The letter is dated at ) m. i,
and is one of the most beautiful, off
hand tributes to the early morning,
that we reolect ever to have read =
d" Whether it be a favor or an annoy
ance, you owe this letter to my habits
of early rising. From the hour mark
ed at the top of the page, you will nat
urally conclude that my companions
are not now engaging ny attention, as
we have not calculated on being early
travellers to-day.
This city has a {" pleasant seat" 1t
is high; the James river runs below it,
and when went out an hour ago moth
ing was heard but the roar Of the falls.
The air is tranquil and its temperature
mild. 1t is morning, and morning
sweet, and fresh, and delightful. Eve
ry body knows the morning in its me-
taphorical sense, applied to so many
objects and on so many occasions. The
health, strength and beauty Of early
years, leads us to call that period the
morning of life" OF a lovely young
woman we says she SIS bright as the
morning." and no one doubts why Lu
cifcr is called ''son Of the morning."
But the morning itself, few people,
inhabitants of cities, know anything a
bout. Among all our good people,
not one in thousand sees the sun rise
once year. They know nothing Of
the morning. Their idea of it is, that
it is that part of the day which comes
along after cup of coffee and beef.
steak, or piece oftoast With them
morning is not new issuing of light,
a new bursting forth of the sun. new
waking up of all that has life, from a
sort of temporary death, to behold a.
gain the works of God, the heavens
and the earth /; it is only a part of the
domestic day, belonging to breakfast,
to reading the newspapers, answering
notes, sending the children to school,
and giving orders for dinner. The
first faint streak of light, the earliest
pmpling of the East, which the lark
springs up to greet, t,and the deeper and
deeper coloring into orange and red,
till at length the "glorious sun is seen,
regent Of day''-:his theyncvcr enjoy,
for they never see it.
Beautiful descriptions of the morn
ming abound in all languages, but they
are the strongest, perhaps, in those of
the East, where the sun is often an OBJ
ject of worship.
King David speaks of taking to him.
self the "wings of the morning" This
is highly poctical and beautiful. The
wings of the morning are the beams
of the rising sun. Rays of light are
wings. Iti is that sun of righteousness
shall arise with healing in his wings" "
\ rising sun which shall scatter life
and heath and joy throughout the un-
verse.
Milton has fine descriptions of morn
ins, but not so many as Shakespeare,
from whose writings, pages Of the most
beautiful imagery, all founded On the
glory Of morning, might be filed.
never thought that Adam had much
the advantage Of us, from having seen
the world while it was new.
The manifestations of the power of
God, like his mercies, are "new every
morning,' and fresh every moment.
We see as fine risings Of the sun as
even Adam saw, and its rislngs are
as much miracle now as they were
in his day, and | think a good deal
more, because it is now a part of the
miracle that for thousands and thous.
ands of years he has come to his ap-
pointed time without the variation Of a
millionih Iart of a second. Adam
could not tell how this might be.
know the morning. am acquaint-
ed with it, and | love it. | love it,
fresh and sweet as it is-a daily new
creation, breaking forth and calling all
that have life and breath and being to
new alteration, new enjoyments and
new gratitude" "
Fe8~" Mr.. Snowman, what is that?"
] ..lhat my hcnr IL thn Rhinncnr.