LESSON VI
SEQUENCE
SEQUENCE means a coming after, a following in order as regards space, time, or thought; as,
We come, as Americans, to mark a spot which must forever be dear to us and our posterity. We wish that, whosoever in all coming time, shall turn his eye hither, may behold that the place is not undistinguished where the first great battle of the Revolution was fought. We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age. We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish that labor may look up here, and be proud in the midst of its toil. We wish that, in those days of disaster, which,
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