Classic Poem

Descendants of the Puritans! whose fame
Shall brighter grow with every coming age,
See that ye tarnish not their honest name,
But add new lustre to the historic page;
Yours are the Church and State for which they fled
Their father land, and sought this distant shore;
For which in after times they fought and bled,
And every want and every suffering bore;
In their free spirit still your rights maintain
'Gainst every secret, every open foe;
The laws of God above all laws sustain,
And in your minds and hearts His precepts know;
Till earth, restored from error and from sin,
Her great Millennial Day of Love and Peace begin!