<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The breaking waves dashed high<br>On a stern and rock-bound coast,<br>And the woods, against a stormy sky,<br>Their giant branches tost;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the heavy night hung dark<br>The hills and water o'er,<br>When a band of exiles moored their bark<br>On the wild New England shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not as the conqueror comes,<br>They, the true-hearted, came;<br>Not with the roll of the stirring drums,<br>And the trumpet that sings of fame;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not as the flying come,<br>In silence and in fear, - <br>They shook the depths of the desert's gloom<br>With their hymns of lofty cheer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amidst the storm they sang,<br>And the stars heard and the sea;<br>And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang<br>To the anthem of the free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ocean-eagle soared<br>From his nest by the white wave's foam,<br>And the rocking pines of the forest roared - <br>This was their welcome home!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were men with hoary hair<br>Amidst that pilgrim band:<br>Why had they come to wither there,<br>Away from their childhood's land?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was woman's fearless eye,<br>Lit by her deep love's truth;<br>There was manhood's brow serenely high,<br>And the fiery heart of youth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What sought they thus afar?<br>Bright jewels of the mine?<br>The wealth of the seas? the spoils of war? - <br>They sought a faith's pure shrine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ay, call it holy ground,<br>The soil where first they trod!<br>They have left unstained what there they found - <br>Freedom to worship God!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Barrett+Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a><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=383952" data-title="The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers de Elizabeth Barrett Browning" data-description="The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tost; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and water o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New Englan..."></div> </div> </div>

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