GOD MAKES A PATH
God makes a path, provides a guide,
And feeds in wilderness!
His glorious name while breath remains,
O that I may confess.
Lost many a time, I have had no guide,
No house, but hollow tree!
In stormy winter night no fire,
No food, no company:
In him I found a house, a bed,
A table, company:
No cup so bitter, but's made sweet,
When God shall sweetning be.
Roger Williams.
Williams went to Narragansett Bay, where he bargained with Canonicus for the land he wanted, and laid the foundations of the present city of Providence.
CANONICUS AND ROGER WILLIAMS
[1636]
Content within his wigwam warm,
Canonicus sate by the fire;
Without, the voices of the storm
Shrieked ever high and higher.