The Landing of the Pilgrims

Felicia Dorothea Hemans

1793 to 1835

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With their hymns of lofty cheer.
And the stars heard, and the sea;
The soil where first they trod!
From his nest by the white wave's foam;
Amidst the storms they sang;
Bright jewels of the mine?
The ocean eagle soared
There were men with hoary hair
There was woman's fearless eye,
They have left unstained what there they found—
On a stern and rock-bound coast,
Amidst that pilgrim band:
And the trumpet that sings of fame;
And the woods against a stormy sky
Away from their childhood's land?
They shook the depths of the desert's gloom
Why had they come to wither there
Not as the conqueror comes,
On the wild New England shore.
Not as the flying come,
The breaking waves dashed high
To the anthem of the free.
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?—
Ay, call it holy ground,—
They, the true-hearted, came,—
The hills and waters o'er,
Lit by her deep love's truth;
And the fiery heart of youth.
What sought they thus afar?
This was their welcome home!
And the heavy night hung dark
In silence and in fear;
They sought a faith's pure shrine.
Not with the roll of the stirring drums,
Their giant branches tossed;
Freedom to worship God!
There was manhood's brow serenely high,
And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang
And the rocking pines of the forest roared—
When a band of exiles moored their bark

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