ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS
XIII. ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA
I. THE PILGRIM FATHERS
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS
XIII. ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA
WELL worthy to be magnified are they Who, with sad hearts, of friends and country took A last farewell, their loved abodes forsook, And hallowed ground in which their fathers lay; Then to the new-found World explored their way, That so a Church, unforced, uncalled to brook Ritual restraints, within some sheltering nook Her Lord might worship and his word obey In freedom. Men they were who could not bend; Blest Pilgrims, surely, as they took for guide 10 A will by sovereign Conscience sanctified; Blest while their Spirits from the woods ascend Along a Galaxy that knows no end, But in His glory who for Sinners died.