Jamestown tributes and toasts . ar,Now would be your honored name. Your charms, of course, would be wed love you just the same. To your eyes we drink a toast. Dear—To your heart so brave and true; To your voice, so sweet, so pleading—Little feet and fingers, too! Wed not have no Princess, but for you! MiEiAM , Tennessee. 42 TO THE JAMESTOWN CHURCH 1607-1907 We stand beneath old spires beyond the seasAnd hearken to the thrilling tale they tellOf aspiration, self-devotion, well Wrought tasks, and penitents upon their knees. But ah, the tale of lus
Jamestown tributes and toasts . ar,Now would be your honored name. Your charms, of course, would be wed love you just the same. To your eyes we drink a toast. Dear—To your heart so brave and true; To your voice, so sweet, so pleading—Little feet and fingers, too! Wed not have no Princess, but for you! MiEiAM , Tennessee. 42 TO THE JAMESTOWN CHURCH 1607-1907 We stand beneath old spires beyond the seasAnd hearken to the thrilling tale they tellOf aspiration, self-devotion, well Wrought tasks, and penitents upon their knees. But ah, the tale of lust and cruel ease,Of bigotry and pride that tolled the knellOf liberty and light and truth! The fell Relentless hands that stifled piteous pleas!But thou, oh simple ruin upon this weave a tale whose every thread is sun that rose upon the darkling way Has faltered never, creeping up the dial,And now its splendid rays shine liberty and peace for aye! William Alexander Babb. Norfolk. 43. 44 AT JAMESTOWN CHURCH TOWER Where the early settlers sank upon their knees to beg pro-tection, guidance and help of a Divine Providence, we in thiscommercial age forget our sordid cares and bow our headsin reverence for him who hewed his way into a new worldto make a happier abiding place for his children; reverencefor this ruin that tells of another generations faith anddependence on Almighty God. Who shall say we are not better for the pilgrimage? John T. 45 CHAPTER II THE ORIGINAL THIRTEEN In their ragged regimentalsStood the old Continentals,Yielding not. 48
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