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IN the hour of twilight shadows	A
The Pilgrim sire looked out	B
He thought of the 'bloudy Salvages'	A
That lurked all round about	B
Of Wituwamet's pictured knife	C
And Pecksuot's whooping shout	B
For the baby's limbs were feeble	D
Though his father's arms were stout	B
	-
His home was a freezing cabin	E
Too bare for the hungry rat	F
Its roof was thatched with ragged grass	A
And bald enough of that	F
The hole that served for casement	F
Was glazed with an ancient hat	F
And the ice was gently thawing	G
From the log whereon he sat	F
	-
Along the dreary landscape	H
His eyes went to and fro	I
	-
The trees all clad in icicles	A
The streams that did not flow	I
A sudden thought flashed o'er him	J
A dream of long ago	I
He smote his leathern jerkin	E
And murmured 'Even so '	-
	-
'Come hither God be Glorified	F
And sit upon my knee	E
Behold the dream unfolding	G
Whereof I spake to thee	E
By the winter's hearth in Leyden	E
And on the stormy sea	E
True is the dream's beginning	G
So may its ending be	E
	-
'I saw in the naked forest	F
Our scattered remnant cast	F
A screen of shivering branches	A
Between them and the blast	F
The snow was falling round them	K
The dying fell as fast	F
I looked to see them perish	L
When lo the vision passed	F
	-
'Again mine eyes were opened	F
The feeble had waxed strong	M
The babes had grown to sturdy men	E
The remnant was a throng	M
By shadowed lake and winding stream	N
And all the shores along	M
The howling demons quaked to hear	O
The Christian's godly song	M
	-
'They slept the village fathers	A
By river lake and shore	P
When far adown the steep of Time	Q
The vision rose once more	P
I saw along the winter snow	E
A spectral column pour	P
And high above their broken ranks	A
A tattered flag they bore	P
	-
'Their Leader rode before them	K
Of bearing calm and high	R
The light of Heaven's own kindling	G
Throned in his awful eye	R
These were a Nation's champions	A
Her dread appeal to try	R
God for the right I faltered	F
And lo the train passed by	R
	-
'Once more the strife is ended	F
The solemn issue tried	F
The Lord of Hosts his mighty arm	S
Has helped our Israel's side	F
Gray stone and grassy hillock	T
Tell where our martyrs died	F
But peaceful smiles the harvest	F
And stainless flows the tide	F
	-
'A crash as when some swollen cloud	F
Cracks o'er the tangled trees	A
With side to side and spar to spar	U
Whose smoking decks are these	A
I know Saint George's blood red cross	A
Thou Mistress of the Seas	A
But what is she whose streaming bars	A
Roll out before the breeze	A
	-
'Ah well her iron ribs are knit	F
Whose thunders strive to quell	V
The bellowing throats the blazing lips	A
That pealed the Armada's knell	V
The mist was cleared a wreath of stars	A
Rose o'er the crimsoned swell	V
And wavering from its haughty peak	W
The cross of England fell	V
	-
'O trembling Faith though dark the morn	E
A heavenly torch is thine	E
While feebler races melt away	X
And paler orbs decline	E
Still shall the fiery pillar's ray	X
Along thy pathway shine	E
To light the chosen tribe that sought	F
This Western Palestine	E
	-
'I see the living tide roll on	E
It crowns with flaming towers	A
The icy capes of Labrador	P
The Spaniard's 'land of flowers'	A
It streams beyond the splintered ridge	Y
That parts the northern showers	A
From eastern rock to sunset wave	Z
The Continent is ours '	-
	-
He ceased the grim old soldier saint	F
Then softly bent to cheer	A2
The Pilgrim child whose wasting face	A
Was meekly turned to hear	O
And drew his toil worn sleeve across	A
To brush the manly tear	B2
From cheeks that never changed in woe	E
And never blanched in fear	A2
	-
The weary Pilgrim slumbers	A
His resting place unknown	E
His hands were crossed his lips were closed	F
The dust was o'er him strown	E
The drifting soil the mouldering leaf	C2
Along the sod were blown	E
His mound has melted into earth	D2
His memory lives alone	E
	-
So let it live unfading	W
The memory of the dead	F
Long as the pale anemone	E
Springs where their tears were shed	F
Or raining in the summer's wind	F
In flakes of burning red	F
The wild rose sprinkles with its leaves	A
The turf where once they bled	F
	-
Yea when the frowning bulwarks	A
That guard this holy strand	F
Have sunk beneath the trampling surge	E2
In beds of sparkling sand	F
While in the waste of ocean	E
One hoary rock shall stand	F
Be this its latest legend	F
HERE WAS THE PILGRIM'S LAND	F

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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