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The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers

And the trumpet that sings of fame;
And the fiery heart of youth.
From his nest by the white waves foam,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
There were men with hoary hair
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
They, the truread.99csw.come-hearted, came;
On the wild New England shore.
Why had they come to wither there,
Not as the flying come,
And the stars heard and the sea;
Lit by her deep loves truth;
And the rocking pines of the forest roared -
On 九九藏書a stern and rock-bound coast,
Amidst that pilgrim band:
Their giant branches tost;
Ay, call it holy ground,
The ocean-eagle soared
Not as the conqueror comes,
And the woods, against a stormy sky,
The breaking waves dashed high
Thhttps://read.99csw•comey shook the depths of the deserts gloom
To the anthem of the free.
They sought a faiths pure shrine!
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang
Not with the roll of the s九*九*藏*書tirring drums,
There was womans fearless eye,
Bright jewels of the mine?
What sought they thus afar?
They have left unstained what there they found -
With their hymns of lofty cheer.
The soil where first they trod!
In silence and in fear, -
Thhttps://read.99csw.comis was their welcome home!
Freedom to worship God!
Amidst the storm they sang,
The hills and water oer,
There was manhoods brow serenely high,
And the heavy night hung dark
The wealth of the seas? the spoils of war? -
Away from their childhoods land?