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

by Job Durfee

“Father of mercies! thou the wanderer’s guide

In this dire storm along the howling waste,

Thanks for the shelter thou dost here provide,

Thanks for the mercies of the day that’s past;

Thanks for the frugal fare thou hast supplied;

And O! may still thy tender mercies last;

And may thy light on every falsehood shine,

Till man’s freed spirit owns no law but thine!”

XLIX.