Though not ourselves partakers of these brighter days, ours may be the pleasure at least of foreseeing them, of enjoying them in happy vision, or the satisfaction, sweeter still, of hastening by some moments the too distant epoch.
Sumner reflects on the joy of anticipating a brighter future, even if one does not live to see it.
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