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The LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS

11/11/2017

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by: Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)

  • THE breaking waves dashed high
    On a stern and rock-bound coast,
    And the woods against a stormy sky
    Their giant branches tossed;

    And the heavy night hung dark,
    The hills and waters o'er,
    When a band of exiles moored their bark
    On the wild New England shore.

    Not as the conqueror comes,
    They, the true-hearted came;
    Not with the roll of the stirring drums,
    And the trumpet that sings of fame;

    Not as the flying come,
    In silence and in fear;
    They shook the depths of the desert gloom
    With their hymns of lofty cheer.

    Amidst the storm they sang,
    And the stars heard, and the sea;
    And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang
    To the anthem of the free.

    The ocean eagle soared
    From his nest by the white wave's foam;
    And the rocking pines of the forest roared--
    This was their welcome home.

    There were men with hoary hair
    Amidst the pilgrim band:
    Why had they come to wither there,
    Away from their childhood's land?

    There was woman's fearless eye,
    Lit by her deep love's truth;
    There was manhood's brow, serenely high,
    And the fiery heart of youth.

    What sought they thus afar?
    Bright jewels of the mine?
    The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?
    They sought a faith's pure shrine!

    Ay, call it holy ground,
    The soil where first they trod;
    They have left unstained what there they found --
    Freedom to whorship God.


"Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" is reprinted from Historic Poems and Ballads. Ed. Rupert S. Holland. Philadelphia: George
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