| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | September 6 | | The Pilgrim Fathers | | By William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | | The ship Mayflower, bearing the Pilgrims, sailed from Southampton, England, Sept. 6, 1620. |
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WELL worthy to be magnified are they | |
| Who, with sad hearts, of friends and country took | |
| A last farewell, their loved abodes forsook, | |
| And hallowed ground in which their fathers lay; | |
| Then to the new-found World explored their way, | 5 |
| That so a Church, unforced, uncalled to brook | |
| Ritual restraints, within some sheltering nook | |
| Her Lord might worship and His word obey | |
| In freedom. Men they were who could not bend; | |
| Blest Pilgrims, surely, as they took for guide | 10 |
| A will by sovereign Conscience sanctified; | |
| Blest while their Spirits from the woods ascend | |
| Along a Galaxy that knows no end, | |
| But in His glory who for Sinners died. | | | |
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