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

by Job Durfee

A State where heretics may refuge find,

I do not doubt that to some little grace

The Plymouth rulers would be well inclined;

But as it is, perhaps some other place,

Still more remote, may better suit thy mind;

But till the morn as may a guest befit,

My message hither do I pretermit.”

XXXIX.

Our Founder pondered on the Elder’s word;