<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119301" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pilgrim Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Written for the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Pennsylvania</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pilgrims of the trackless deep,<br>Leaving all, our fathers came,<br>Life and liberty to keep<br>In Jehovah's awful name.<br>Neither pillared flame nor cloud<br>Made the wild, for them, rejoice,<br>But their hearts, with sorrow bowed,<br>In the darkness heard His voice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Things above them they divined—<br>Thoughts of God, forever true,<br>And the deathless Compact signed—<br>Building better than they knew:<br>Building liberty not planned,<br>Law that ampler life controls,<br>All the greatness of our land<br>Lying shadowed in their souls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the days that shall succeed,<br>Prouder boast no time shall grant<br>Than to be of them, indeed,<br>Children of their Covenant:<br>Children of the promised day,<br>Bound by hope and memory,<br>Brave, devoted, wise, as they—<br>Strong with love's humility.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Mine and Thine</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119301" data-title="Pilgrim Song de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="Written for the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Pennsylvania/Pilgrims of the trackless deep,/Leaving all, our fathers came,/Life and liberty to keep/In Jehovah's awful name./Neither pillared flame nor cloud/Made the wild, for them..."></div> </div> </div>

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