Speeches in Stirring Times And Letters to a Son Electronic Resource
Speeches in Stirring Times And Letters to a Son Electronic Resource
Dana Richard Henry
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I cannot do that, sir, I cannot do that without rising to say one word of what I know and feel upon this sad loss. The pressure which has been upon me in the last few days of my remaining here, has prevented my making that kind of preparation which the example of him whom we commemorate requires of every man about to address a fit audience upon a great subject. I can only speak right on what I do feel and know. "The wine of life is drawn. " The "golden bowl is broken. " The age of miracles has ...passed. The day of inspiration is over. The Great Conqueror, unseen and irresistible, has broken into our temple and has carried off the vessels of gold, the vessels of silver, the precious stones, the jewels, and the ivory; and, like the priests of the Temple of Jerusa lem, after the invasion from Babylon, we must con tent ourselves, as we can, with vessels of wood and of stone and of iron. With such broken phrases as these, Mr. Chairman, RUFUS CHOATE, 289 perhaps not altogether just to the living, we endeavor to express the emotions natural to this hour of our bereavement.
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