| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 138. New England |
| | | For a Celebration in Kentucky of the Landing of the Pilgrims |
| | | By George Denison Prentice |
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| CLIME of the brave! the high heart’s home, | |
| Laved by the wild and stormy sea! | |
| Thy children, in this far-off land, | |
| Devote to-day their hearts to thee; | |
| Our thoughts, despite of space and time, | 5 |
| To-day are in our native clime, | |
| Where passed our sinless years, and where | |
| Our infant heads first bowed in prayer. | |
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| Stern land! we love thy woods and rocks, | |
| Thy rushing streams, thy winter glooms, | 10 |
| And Memory, like a pilgrim gray, | |
| Kneels at thy temples and thy tombs: | |
| The thoughts of these, where’er we dwell, | |
| Come o’er us like a holy spell, | |
| A star to light our path of tears, | 15 |
| A rainbow on the sky of years. | |
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| Above thy cold and rocky breast | |
| The tempest sweeps, the night-wind wails, | |
| But Virtue, Peace, and Love, like birds | |
| Are nestled mid thy hills and vales; | 20 |
| And Glory, o’er each plain and glen, | |
| Walks with thy free and iron men, | |
| And lights her sacred beacon still | |
| On Bennington and Bunker Hill. | |
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