The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-01-15
Parsing Exercise.

The following letter of Daniel Webster Is
selected as one Of the finest specimens Of a
finished composition in the English language.
r.. As model in epistolary style. 2 For
simplicity. 3 For grammatical accuracy
4 For beauty Of thought and expression. 5
For Saxon words and forms of expression, al
ways predominant in this standard writer of
the Eng lish language 9 For a religious SEN
tirnent, pervading frank expression on COM
mon subjects: H M
"RIcHMosD, Ocs. Is, 1850, d O'Clock, A. M.
ss1fy Deur Frand-Whe,her it be favor
or am annoyance, you owe this letter to my
habit of early rising. From the hour marked
at the top of the page, you will naturally con-
clude that my companions are mot now engag-
. ing my attention, as we have not calculated
o being early travellers To-day.
ssThis city hasa pheasant seat II is high:
the James river runs below it; and when went
out an hour ago, nothing was heard but the
temperature mild. 1t is morning, and a morn
ing sweet and refreshing and delightful. so8
Everybody knows the morning in i,smeta-
l.horical sense, applied toso many occasions.
Thehealh b, strength, and beauty OF earlyyears,
lead us to call that period the morning of life.'
OF alovely young woman, we say. she is bright
as the morning;' and no one doibts why Luz
cifer is called son of the morning.,
But The morning itself, few people, inhab-
iianis Of cities, know anything bout. Among
/ all our good people, not one in thousand sees
the sun rise once in year. They know nolh-
ing Of the morning. Their idea of it is that
partof the day which comes along after cup of
coffee or a piece of toast. With them, morn
ing is not new issuing of light, new BURST
ing forth Of the sun, new waking up of all
that has life from sort Of temporary DEATH
to behold again the works Of God, The heavens
and the EARTH Itisoniy part Of The domes-
tic day, belonging to reading th- newspapers,
answering notes, sending the children to school
and giving orders for dinner. The first streak
Of light, the earliest, purpiing of the East,
which the lark springs up to greet, and the
deeper and deeper rcoloring into orange and
red, till at length the glorious sun is seen, re-
gent Of day'--this, they never enjoy, for they
never see it. ,8tsat ss aa .sis4
.sBeantifui descriptions Of morning aboand
in all languages, but they are strongest pei haps
inthe East, where the sun is freanently the OBJ
lect of worship King David speaks of taking
| to himself the wings of the morning. THIS
is highly poctica and beautiful. The wings
of the morning are the beams of the rising sun.
II is thus said that the Sun of Righteousness
shall arise with healing in his wings Ia morn-
| ing that shall scatter life, and health and Joy
throughout the Universe. Milton has fine des-
eriptions Of the morning, but not SO many as
Shakespeare. fiom whose writings pages Of the
most beautiful imagery, si founded on the glory
of the morning, might be filed. ae
"I never Thought Adam had much the ad-
vantage Of us for having seen the world when
! it was new. The manifestations of the power
of God, like his mercies, are new every morn
ing, and fresh every moment.' We see as fine
risings Of the sun as Aaam ever saw; and its
risings are as much miracle now as they
We're in his day, and think great deal more
so; because II is now part of the miracle,
that for thousand and thousands OF years he
has come to mis- appointed time without the va
ration Of the million'h part OF second. Ad-
am could not tell hcw this might be. 4tf
alsI know the. morning: am acquainted With
It, and loyeit love It, fresh and sweet as
it is--a daily new creation breaking forth, and
calling all that have life aud breath ard Ssing
to new alteration, new enjoyments, and new
sratitnds.s IaHssns3 - NslpsS sa'F go
! slAaes aas HAsevsr. your friend, 81 ! 4
aDANIEL WEBSTER.