 We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun...  American Quarterly Review - Page 313edited by - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1922 - 360 pages
...it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. We still have among us some of those w^io were active agents in the scenes of 1775, and who are now... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society - New England - 1884 - 596 pages
...the words of "Webster on Bunker's heights, which etill linger in my ears, "Let it meet the sun in its coming ; let the earliest light of the morning gild...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." My friends, is it not passing strange that no fitting statue has been erected by any of our cities,... | |
 | Willard De Lue - Walpole (Mass. : Town) - 1925 - 464 pages
...Hill Monument in the year 1825, — "Let it rise! Let it rise! till it meet the sun in his coming. May the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." On the contrary, he would say, "We have assembled, not for the purpose of erecting a majestic column... | |
 | Auburn (N.H. : Town) - 1926 - 692 pages
...the voice of Webster at Bunker Hill, at the laying of the corner stone, when he said: "Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit;" and the voice of Lincoln, at Gettysburg, and, then, in his second inaugural, when he uttered that sentence... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - Oratory - 1927 - 566 pages
...Trenton and Monmouth, from Yorktown, Camden, Bennington, and Saratoga." 16. "Let it rise till it meets the sun in his coming: let the earliest light of the...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." 17. "If I were to tell you the story of Napoleon, I should take it from the lips of Frenchmen, who... | |
 | American essays - 1882 - 914 pages
...that most familiar sentence at the laying of the cornerstone of Bunker Hill monument: "Let it rise ! Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." The thought and picture are alike poetical, and they are expressed in the simplest of English words,... | |
 | 1825 - 856 pages
...pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all i ninds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish,...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. We live in a most extraordinary age. Events so various and so important, that they might crowd and... | |
 | William B. Dillingham - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 464 pages
...dedicatory passage on the monument that he uttered the words, 'Let it rise till it meet the sun in its coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.' " 23 These ringing words of Webster's may well have been in Melville's mind when he closed his own... | |
 | John Ward Dean N. E. H. G. S. Staff - New England - 1996 - 444 pages
...of Webster on Bunker's heights, which still linger in my ears, "Let it meet the sun in its coining ; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." My friends, is it not passing strange that no fitting statue has been erected by any of our cities,... | |
 | Craig R. Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 310 pages
...about the monument then concludes, "Let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earlier light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." The biblical tone reinforced the religious feeling of the moment.2' It is important to remember that... | |
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