The Great Lamentation
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Great Lamentation: A Sermon in Commemoration of Daniel Webster, Delivered in Cambridge, on Sunday Morning, November 21, 1852 No pageantry attended the obsequies. No cannon, nor muffled drum, nor tolling bells, nor ranks of soldiery, nor bands of music, nor ostentatious tears announced that one of the greatest of the earth had fallen. But there gathered around that reverend form thousands and thousands of afflicted hearts. All the morning they were coming in. Massachusetts was there, New England was there, the country was there. The hills around were blackened with multitudes coming in on foot - the roads were filled and the valleys crowded with vehicles bringing mourners from near and from afar. Around the remains of the great man, in and about his dwelling, down the avenues, and over his grounds, thronged the crowd. Silence reigned; sorrow was on every countenance; the nation´s heart stood still. Nature sympathized. The great tree, through whose thick summer foliage the departed was accustomed to gaze into the heavens and worship, drooped with its mighty naked branches to the ground. Two weeping elms, which the statesman had planted and named for his dead children, Edward and Julia, stood up like statues in tears. The forests and shrubbery, smitten with autumnal frosts, had put on their mourning garments, and the sere leaves were dropping on every side. Flocks of birds seemed to beat the air with heavy wing, as in sympathy with the occasion they passed over the place. The funeral services were distinguished for simplicity and solemnity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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