. Twilight dreams: being poems and pictures of life and nature . THE CHURCH OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS. BY ISABELLA BANKS. ^O the green primeval forests across the | No gallant bark was theirs to steer, only aWT western wave, I time-worn boat. Oppression drove a slender band of true hearts strong and brave :They could not think as others thought, nor feel as others felt,Nor obey the royal edict to kneel where others knelt ;But they had heard of shores afar by priestly feet untrod ;So they sought that land for consciencesake — their With stores as small as seamanship—and yet she kept aficat,For Fai
. Twilight dreams: being poems and pictures of life and nature . THE CHURCH OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS. BY ISABELLA BANKS. ^O the green primeval forests across the | No gallant bark was theirs to steer, only aWT western wave, I time-worn boat. Oppression drove a slender band of true hearts strong and brave :They could not think as others thought, nor feel as others felt,Nor obey the royal edict to kneel where others knelt ;But they had heard of shores afar by priestly feet untrod ;So they sought that land for consciencesake — their With stores as small as seamanship—and yet she kept aficat,For Faith and Hope were at the helm amid the tempests roar ;—But Hope was dead and Faith was before they reached the shore,Where children faint, and women pale, first pressed their feeble Five grains of wheat !—ay, think of it !—were all for each thin hand,When the Mayflower had sailed her last, and brought her freiijht to —for prayer and praise unfettered, at once the welliin rans And they, who from cathedral aisles had fled in fearand scorn. In a grander tJod-buiit temple could worship eve andmorn, Beneath the interlacing boughs like arches over-head.
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