The Portland daily press., 1889-08-02

Their deep foundations laid; their haryests
Their primal mode of liberty; their rules;
OF civil right their churches courts, and schools;
Their freedoms very secret here laid down.
The spring OF government is the.lttle town!
They knew that streams must follow TO spring;
And no stream flows from township to king.
Give praise to others, earlycome or late
For love and labor on our ship of state;
BSt ps . must stana ao ogg az an anne ana zeal
On their strong lines we base our social health,-
The man-the home-the town-the common
wealth!
Unconscious builders? Yea: the conscious fall
Design is impotent if Nature frowD.
No deathlesS pile has grown from intellect.
Immortal things have God for architect,
And men are but the granite He lsys down.
Unconscious? Yea! They thought it might avail
To build gloomy creed about their lives.
To shut out all dissent; but nought survives
OF their poor structure; and we know to-day
Their mission was less pastoral than lay
More Nation seed than Gospel-seed were they!
The Faith was theirs: the time had other needs.
The salt they bore must sweeten worldly deeds.
There was meaning in the very wind
To grapple concrete work, not abstract wrong.
Their sanity Robinson was left behind
TO teach by gentle memory to shame
The bigot spirit and the word of flame;
To write dear mercy in the Pilgrims law;
To lead to that wide faith his soul foresaw,-
That no rejected race In darkness delves
There are no Gentiles, but they make themselves;
That men are one OF blood and one OF spirit;
iha' one Is aS the whoie' anu all inhern!
On all the story of life or race,
The blessing OF good man leaves its trace
Their Pastors word at Leyden here suffced:
But follow me as Ihave followed Christi"
And, 81 believe there is more truth to comet"
O gentle sou,. what future ace shall, som
The sweet incentive of thy tender word!
Thy sigh to hear of conquest by the sword:
,Iow nappy 70 convert and not TO slay!,'
when valiant otanulSn killed the cnieI at Day.
TO such .; as these the Fathers owe their famei
Thy teaching made the Pilgrims kindly free
All that the latter Purtans should be.
Thy plous instinct marks their destiny.
It writ and kept the deed with MassasOit;
II earned the welcome Somoset expressed;
II lived again In Elliots loving breast;
Immortal SCROLL the first where men combined
From one deep lake Of common blood to draw
All rulers, rights, and posencies of law
When waves OF ages have their motive spent
Thy sermon breaches in this Monument
Where virtue, courage, Law, and Learning sit;
White hand appraised DER beauteous, trusting
eyes,
Anu pleadlng nnRer pointing 10 the SkleSl
Inc past y theirs-the future ours; and we
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They We're M bynncrites Itbapr faitb was Clear.
Ihey ,r feared TOO much some sins men ought TO
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The stern enthusiasm Of their life
imoeIled FOO far and , w noor o,,,ra down,
they missed Gods smile nerbans. re watch His
III irnwn 'e e . ''A''o' poiA"p'' W ""'si mo
Rnt b be Who dies for faults oh all resnrrect
Their manly virtnes horn ri selfresnect
How sum tI,air ma u " They pere ,,ra and
brave: ~ ~
Tbev hrora M copnact and tbav ownad No slave
They had NO serv,la order NO dumh throat.
They trusted first the nnIyersai vote.
The first were thew IN nractice and instil
The rule of war and NOT the rue of will:
They lived one noble fest. who would he freed
Must give nm ali to follow duty,s lead.
They made no revolution based on blows
Rnt TAUGHT one truth that ali the nlanet knows
That ali man think of Iooking on q throne
The nennje NAV he Trusted With their oUnt,
In every land wberever might holds SWAY
The Mayflower's cabin was the chosen womb
God grant that those who tend the sacred flame
More light has come,-more dangers, too, perp.ex;
New prdes new greeds, our high condition vex.
The Fathers fled from feuda lords, and made
freehold state; may we not retrogade
May we, as they did, teach in court and school,