The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers

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    <strong>The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers</strong><bdo></bdo>

    The breaking waves dashed high

    On a stern and rock-bound coast,

    And the woods, against a stormy sky,

    Their giant braost;

    And the heavy night hung d<dfn></dfn>ark

    The hills and water oer,

    When a band of exiles moored their bark

    On the wild New England shore.

    Not as the queror es,

    They, the true-hearted, came;

    Not with the roll of<bdo></bdo> the stirring drums,

    And the trumpet that sings of fame;

    Not as the flying e,

    In silend in fear, -

    They shook the depths of the deserts 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 wo

    To the anthem of the free.

    The o-eagle soared

    From his  by the white waves foam,

    <u></u>And the rog pines of the forest roared -

    This was their wele home!

    There were men with hoary hair

    Amidst that pilgrim band:

    Why had they e to wither there,

    Away from their childhoods land?

    There was womans fearless eye,

    Lit by her deep loves truth;

    There was manhoods brow serenely high,

    And the fiery heart of youth.

    What sought they thus afar?

    Bright jewels of the mine?

    The wealth of the seas? the spoils of war? -

    They sought a faiths pure shrine!

    Ay, call it holy ground,

    The soil where first they trod!

    They have left unstained what there they <tt>..t>found -

    Freedom to worship God!

    <strong>Elizabeth Barrett Browning</strong>

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