<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391634" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>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 tossed; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the heavy night hung dark, <br>The hills and waters 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 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 the 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 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=Felicia+Dorothea+Hemans">Felicia Dorothea Hemans</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=391634" data-title="The Pilgrim Fathers de Felicia Dorothea Hemans" data-description="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 N..."></div> </div> </div>

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