St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-25
THE MORNING.

thoughts of Daniel Webster on be-
holding sunrise at the beautiful capi-
toline city of "the Old Dominion, y
seated on Shockoe and Church Hills
which look down on the romantic val
ley of James River: .
RICHMOND, Oct. 16, 1850, S AN.
"MY DEAR SIR ;: Whether it be fa-
vor or an annoyance, you owe this
letter to my early rising. From the
hour marked at the top Of the page
you will naturally conclude that my
companions are not now engaging my
attention, as we have not calculated
on being early travellers to-day.
"This city has pleasant site.' 1t
is high; the James River runs below it,
and when l went out an hour ago
nothing was heard but the roaring of
the falls. The air is very tranquil
and its temperature mild. 1t is morn
ing, and morning sweet and refresh
ing and delightful.
Every body knows why the morn
ing, in it's metaphorical sense, is ap-
piled to so many occasions. The
health and strength and beauty of early
years lead lis to call that period the
morning of life > of a lovely young
woman we say, she is bright as the
morning.
"But the morning itself, few people,
inhabitants of cities, know any thing
about. Among all our good people
not one out of thousand sees the
sun rise once u year. They know
nothing of the morning their idea of
it is that part of the day which comes
after a cup Of coffee or a piece of
toast.
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 the works Of God, the
heaven and the earth. 1t is only a
part of the domestic day, belonging to
to reading the newspapers, answering
notes, sending the children to school,
and giving orders for dinner. The
first streak Of light, the earliest purp-
ling of the east which the lark springs
up to greet, and the deeper and deep
er coloring into orange and red, till at
length the glorious sun is seen, re-
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for they never see it.
Beautiful descriptions Of morning
abound in all languages but they are
strongest perhaps in the East, where
the sun is frequently the object of
King David speaks 81 taking
to himself the wings of the morn
ing. This is highly poetical and
beautiful. The wings of the morning
are the beams of the rising sun. 1t
is said that the Sun of Righteousness
shall rise with healing in his wings =
a morning that shall scatter life and
health, and joy throughout the uni
verse. Milton has fine descriptions of
the morning, but not SO many as
shakespeare, from whose writings
pages of the most delightful imagery,
all founded on the glory Of the morn
ing, might be filed.
I" | never thought Adam had much
the advantage of us for having seen
the world when it was new. The
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 ever
Adam saw and its risings are as
much of q miracle now as they were
in his day, and l think great deal
more so because it is now part of
the miracle that for thousands and
thousands of years he has come to his
appointed time without the variation
Of the millionth part Of second.
Adam could not tell how this was.
81 know the morning l am ac-
quainted with it, and l love it. l
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 en-
joyment, and new gratitude.
AS ever, your friend,
DANIEL WEBSTER"