PILGRIM

Related Subjects: Pioneer, Puritans

1. Wild was the day; the wintry sea
   Moaned sadly on New England's strand,
   When first the thoughtful and the free,
   Our fathers, trod the desert land.—BRYANT, The Twenty-Second of December
   

2. They cultivated industry and frugality at the same time—which is the real foundation of the greatness of eie Pilgrims.—ULYSSES S. GRANT
   

3. The Pilgrims landed, worthy men,
   And saved from wreck on raging seas,
   They fell upon their knees, and then
   Upon the Aborigines.—ARTHUR GUITERMAN, The Pilgrims' Thanksgiving
   

4. Ay, call it holy ground,
   The soil where first they trod!
   They have left unstained what there they found—
   Freedom to worship God.—MRS. HEMANS, The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
   

5. God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.—LONGFELLOW, The Courtship of Miles Standish
   

6. Down to the Plymouth Rock, that had been to their feet as a doorstep
   Into a world unknown,—the cornerstone of a nation!—LONGFELLOW, The Courtship of Miles Standish
   

7. Give it only the fulcrum of Plymouth Rock, an idea will upheave the continent.—WENDELL PHILLIPS

8. The Pilgrim spirit has not fled:
   It walks in noon's broad light;
   And it watches the bed of the glorious dead,
   With the holy stars by night.—JOHN PIERPONT, The Pilgrim Fathers