<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420738" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mayflowers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sad Mayflower! watched by winter stars,<br>And nursed by winter gales,<br>With petals of the sleeted spars,<br>And leaves of frozen sails!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What had she in those dreary hours,<br>Within her ice-rimmed bay,<br>In common with the wild-wood flowers,<br>The first sweet smiles of May?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, 'God be praised!' the Pilgrim said,<br>Who saw the blossoms peer<br>Above the brown leaves, dry and dead,<br>'Behold our Mayflower here!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'God wills it: here our rest shall be,<br>Our years of wandering o'er;<br>For us the Mayflower of the sea<br>Shall spread her sails no more.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O sacred flowers of faith and hope,<br>As sweetly now as then<br>Ye bloom on many a birchen slope,<br>In many a pine-dark glen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behind the sea-wall's rugged length,<br>Unchanged, your leaves unfold,<br>Like love behind the manly strength<br>Of the brave hearts of old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So live the fathers in their sons,<br>Their sturdy faith be ours,<br>And ours the love that overruns<br>Its rocky strength with flowers!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Pilgrim's wild and wintry day<br>Its shadow round us draws;<br>The Mayflower of his stormy bay,<br>Our Freedom's struggling cause.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But warmer suns erelong shall bring<br>To life the frozen sod;<br>And through dead leaves of hope shall spring<br>Afresh the flowers of God!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</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=420738" data-title="The Mayflowers de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="Sad Mayflower! watched by winter stars, And nursed by winter gales, With petals of the sleeted spars, And leaves of frozen sails! What had she in those dreary hours, Within her ice-rimmed bay, In common with the wild-wood flowers, The first sweet..."></div> </div> </div>

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