To dedicate a shore,

Where piety’s meek train might breathe their vow,

And seek their Maker with an unshamed brow;

Where liberty’s glad race might proudly come,

And set up there an everlasting home?

X.

O many a time it hath been told,

The story of those men of old:

For this fair poetry hath wreathed

Her sweetest, purest flower;