 | David Benedict - Baptists - 1848 - 1024 pages
...spring, which remains till this day.8 At this spot the settlement of Roger Williams commenced. « O, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod...unstained, what there they found, FREEDOM TO WORSHIP GOD."* " To the town here founded, Mr. Williams, with his habitual piety, and in grateful remembrance of 'God's... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1849 - 420 pages
...Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ;" There was manhood's brow, serenely high, And the fiery...spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Aye, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Anne (Aunt.) - Christian life - 1849 - 440 pages
...silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Aye, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod. They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Hymns - 1849 - 478 pages
...white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared, — This was their welcome home ! 4 What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstained, what there they... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1850 - 418 pages
...there Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow, serenely high, And the fiery...of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ?-. Aye, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstain'd what there... | |
 | Erastus Darrow - 1850 - 104 pages
...come, In silence and in fear : They shook the depths of their forest home With songs of lofty cheer ! What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine." Thank God that our fathers did seek, on this desart shore, freedom to worship Him ! Thank God that... | |
 | Bookbinding - 1850 - 528 pages
...English poetess has caught the source of their actions with truer inspiration, when she exclaims : — " What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine...spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine!" The American historian assigns juster motives, however, for the final decision of the Pilgrims to abandon... | |
 | United States. Congress - Legislators - 1953 - 118 pages
...freedom of worship. They knew with Emerson that — The faith that stands on authority Is not faith. Aye, call It holy ground. The soil where first they trod:...what there they found — Freedom to worship God. — Herman. For faith, those who settled this country broke the ties of home and fireside, broke the... | |
 | United States. Congress - Legislators - 1953 - 116 pages
...freedom of worship. They knew with Emerson that — The faith that stands on authority Is not faith. Aye, call It holy ground. The soil where first they trod:...what there they found — Freedom to worship God. — Herman. For faith, those who settled this country broke the ties of home and fireside, broke the... | |
 | Lilly May Shaw - 1954 - 308 pages
...story of the landing is developed very quickly as the poem consists of only five stanzas. It ends: What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?...the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine1.. Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod t They have left unstained what there... | |
| |
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom... 
