We Wish That This Column, Rising Towards Heaven Among The Pointed Spires Of So Many Temples Dedicated To God, May Contribute Also To Produce In All Minds A Pious Feeling Of Dependence And Gratitude.

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We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed
spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to
produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude.
We wish, finally, that the last object to 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! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his
coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting
day linger and play on its summit!
-- Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
-- Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825, p. 62

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