HARPER'S
NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
No. VI.—NOVEMBER, 1850.—Vol. I.
A PILGRIMAGE TO THE CRADLE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY.
WITH PEN AND PENCIL.
BY BENSON J. LOSSING.[1]
"How suddenly that straight and glittering shaft
Shot thwart the earth! in crown of living fire
Up comes the day! As if they conscious quaff'd
The sunny flood, hill, forest, city spire
Laugh in the waking light."
Richard H. Dana.