When Mayflowers Blossom; A Romance of Plymouth's First Years (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... XX FACING THE FUTURE WHEN o'er the billows' heaving deep The Fathers of our race, The precepts of their God to keep, Sought here their resting place. That gracious God their path prepared, Preserved from every harm, And still for their protection bared His everlasting arm.--John Quincy Adams. Derived from British rights and laws, That justly merit our applause, Darlings of Heaven, heroes brave, You still shall live though in the grave. Live, live, within each grateful breast, With reverence for your names possessed; Your praises on our tongues shall dwell, And sires to sons your actions tell.--Alexander Scammel. Sung at Plymouth in 1769, at the first public observance of Forefathers' Day. Sicut patribus sit Deus nobis. (As with the Fathers, so may God be with us.)--Seal of Boston, NEW ENGLAND'S first decade was nearly gone. Again the Mayflowers bloomed, these tender little beauties outlasting the grim might of once familiar terrors. The Howlands' nuptial day had come, and they resolved to observe it in the open. They went out by the same gate as on the wedding trip, but not now one following another to avoid public scrutiny. Instead, a family of five, one upheld in arms, proceeded along the street and through the stockade, exchanging friendly greetings with passers. No stinted portion of dry meal, as seven years before, did they carry now for refreshment, but a substantial lunch in which an ample Johnny Indian corn cake found appetizing accessories, with the special luxury of a little butter that Elizabeth had managed to make from their share of the black heifer's milk. "What an acquiry for Plymouth are these few hornbeasts " she exclaimed. "As said a versifier, "Some countryes lack plough-meat And some do lack cow-meat.' But we shall soon have both." The...