Standard Selections / A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions from Best Authors for Use in Class Room and on the Platform - Unknown

Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! We ourselves must Pilgrims be,

Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,

Nor attempt the future's portal with the past's blood-rusted key.

[25] Used by permission of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., authorized publishers of this author's works.

God of our fathers, known of old—

Lord of our far-flung battle line—