Jamestown tributes and toasts . sailWith vows as strongAs the winds that blow you! And cheerfully at seaSuccess you still entice To get the pearls and gold. And ours to hold ViKGINIA, Earths only paradise. Michael Drayton. Toast of the old English poet, to the Jamestown settlers whenthey sailed for Virginia, December 19, 1606. 19 LONG THE HAIL A FAB cry and long the hail. Aback and adown the years,From the bristling regiments of the sea,To the craft of Newports little fleet, That roused the Red Mans fears. A little fleet of tiny ships. That came like winged the mystry land beyond t
Jamestown tributes and toasts . sailWith vows as strongAs the winds that blow you! And cheerfully at seaSuccess you still entice To get the pearls and gold. And ours to hold ViKGINIA, Earths only paradise. Michael Drayton. Toast of the old English poet, to the Jamestown settlers whenthey sailed for Virginia, December 19, 1606. 19 LONG THE HAIL A FAB cry and long the hail. Aback and adown the years,From the bristling regiments of the sea,To the craft of Newports little fleet, That roused the Red Mans fears. A little fleet of tiny ships. That came like winged the mystry land beyond the the wilderness of the unknown west, Where deadly shaft had wings. A far cry and long the hail, A hail three hundred years,From the doughty ships of Captain Smith,To the modern giants with armor clad, From which the twelve-inch peers. But every clime, in homage felt, Now sends its argosy,From the nations great of all the the honor of Freedoms warriors true, Who won their Victory. John T. MAomwis. Norfolk. 20. OUR ENGUSH ANCESTORS The planting of the Virginia Colony in the virgin landhidden away in the West, fastened and bound in on thewilderness trees a rare grafting of Elizabethan culture andenterprise. It was Englands Grand Age. It was Ameeicas Geandeb Opportunity. Out of the brains and souls of men of such an age andnation the planting of Virginia was conceived and ardentlyfostered. Geobge VV. Miles. Radford, Virginia. 21 JAMESTOWN Here the White Man first met the Red Man for settlementand civilization. Here the White Man wielded the first ax to cut the firsttree for the first log cabin. Here the first log cabin became a part of the first village. Here the first village became the first State capital. Here was laid the foundation of a Nation of Freemein, \\Tiich has extended its dominion and its empire across thecontinent to the shores of another ocean. And if Governor Wise, the author of these words had beenspeaking to-day he might have added, A nation wh
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