Thanksgiving Proclamation by Wilbur Cross Soon the bright flurries in the air, tracing on windowpanes the infinite wonders of heavenly space, will mark the flight of a season that came with snowy petals of dogwood drifting, spray beyond delicate spray, in the early luster of spring. Having in mind this fair course of nature from seedtime to flowering, and from flowering to plentiful harvest, safe now against winter storms, and the light of that shining grace which has followed us round the year, permitting us to live in peace and human kindness above the common hope, I appoint Thursday, the twenty-fifth of November [1937], as a Day of Public Thanksgiving in this State [Connecticut]. Let us then, as our fathers used, praise the Giver of Life for the ample fruit of the earth, sweetened by sun and rain, and for the work of the laborer worthy of his hire in every task and station: for food and clothing and shelter that serve the body's need. Let us praise him especially for the blessings which have warmed and fostered the spirit: for every brave, just, and generous deed, every impulse of brotherly love; for every counsel of wisdom and comfort, every witness of truth, every thought of friends who walk with us still, though lost to our sight for all tokens of goodness in man, which have deepened faith in our power, looking within the heart, to fix our eyes upon virtue as upon the Pole Star, and by it keep our way even to the mortal end. For these mercies, without name or number, let us rejoice and give praise. American Heritage Library Table of Contents

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