 | William Henry Ryder - 1854 - 284 páginas
...Fathers are at rest ; When summer's throned on high, And the world's warm breast is in verdure dress'd, Go, stand on the hill where they lie. The earliest ray of the golden day On that hallow'd spot is cast ; And the evening sun, as it leaves the world, Looks kindly on that spot last.... | |
 | Thomas E. Thoresby - 1869 - 718 páginas
...of these Pilgrims ceased to exist in New England. Their mantle fell upon their descendants : — " The pilgrim spirit has not fled ; It walks in noon's broad light, And watches the bed of the glorious dead, With the holy stars by night : — It watches the bed of the... | |
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In the morning's flame burns now. And the moon's cold light, as it lay that night On the hillside and the sea, Still lies where he laid his houseless head, — But the Pilgrim ! where is he ? The Pilgrim Fathers are at rest: When summer's throned on high,... 
