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.
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.
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Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod:
They have left unstained what there they found,—
Freedom to worship God.