Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-30
A MEMORIAL,
Continued from Page One.)


And another sign l give thee for men ia
cherish III mind:
When at last, on Il shore less fair tha n
this thou lcavest behind,
A fated band shall come, whose ewes
shall not turn back,
Though death in a thousand for MS hang
Their. in .hcir surcst need, w!cl, their
children cry for bread,
Shall they turn 10 the land of thy lirth,
..nd the hun@rV Shall be fed
And the starving time Shall cease fo;
Piymouth's Pilgrim flock
Re this thy ;" 'ond sign, q Virginia of
SaSadahoc-
Eut ask not after sign when pledge
l bid tnee lnand
And this is the pledge of my truth-Go'
hid men behold it the Land:
And seeing It, meme shall! doubt that
Heaven has here ordained
The ground u!trre The final goal of man
shall ~ attained.
IIc.r. is room at !.tst,-theSe bays of Sllcl-
t;-r wide
These mighty rivers. tho spoil of lakes in
mountains en"ki,i;
These beaches whose rolling thlndcrs
echo tne storm: the shades
Of these vast mllcnnal woods. and the
smile of these iiowerv glades:
This kinsllip IF land and sea, calm toll
ana the NcrIllIrpIlS gale.
And over it all an rir,-not Enellnd's to
soften and Vel!
Witt! tender illusion the fact, bat the air
Of irorce wherein
Man Shall press I" the beauty OF Truth,
ana the final triumph win
That tho won i'll in his thought rebuilded
shall smile at time and shock
10, this j. the pledge L give, o Virginia
of Sa"adahoc
The tiny rinnarr fades on the oceans
eastern hormd.
Fearing its Now World message; and men
have nailed Tia" sound
AS tie slirwrcrkcd the sight cf shore:
AMI Ia. three hundred vc,rc
Have pa ss"d Xix" Il rain in the night, with
their thron"ing hopes and f"ars
Dut over their tumlllt voice is borne to
our I'D today:
"IIast thou redeemed the Promise, or vet
doe" the Vision stay.
AnG hearts for the Perfect and huncnred.
still do they doubt and debate
If thou ba the land cf Fulhlment. or else
whore thcV must await
Tho Pcauty thy hillSidcs promised the
Truth that was breath of thine air
And the Good. whose being is Love. which
Beauty to Truth shall hear?
Not vet. our hearts reply, not yet the
coUSrmmat" hour:
Eut slowly the Promise unfoldS, from the
bud to tho perfect flower,
Afaf earth catches the fragrance, as red
the petals unlock
OF the flower of thy H0DH. which is mans
> Virginia of Sa2ana hoe
Following these exercises occurred
the unvciing Of z memorial tablet to
the Popham colony by Mrs William
Addison Hought"n. president of the
Colonial Danes. resident in the State
Of Maine. and Ftz Herman Jordan.
governor of the Maine Society of CO.
lonial Wars, and an address by the
Rev. Henry s. Rurrago, D. y.
Address at the dwelling.
by Rev. Henry s. Burrage, d. D
We are standing on historic ground.
Here is the site Of the fort erected by
the Popham colonistS. who landed
nearby, three hundred years ago to-
day, and entered upon the great task
to which they had committed their
hands. Not long has it been known
that this was the site of the colonist's
fort. When, August Goth. 1862. the
Maine Historical Society celebrated
with an elaborate order of services the
Popham enterprise. the United States
government. then in the second year
of the Civil War, had commenced III"
construction of fortiiication t. w.'iit II
was given, by request Of the Society the
name Fort Popham. in honor of GrorE"
Popham. the president of the Popham
colony It was supposed at the time
that this United States fort occupied
the sit" of Fort George erected by the
Popham cOlonists in 1907. Hon. Will