What Cheer; Or, Roger Williams in Banishment: A Poem

by Job Durfee

O’er all about him their enlivening flush;

Ne’er was the grass so verdant on the glade,

Ne’er did the fountain sparkle with such gush;

Ne’er had the stream such lovely music made,

Ne’er sang so blithe the robin on the bush;

The woodland flowers far brighter hues displayed,

More sunny was the lawn, more dark the shade.

IV.

They walked and talked; he told his trials o’er;