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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PLYMOUTH ROCK, by JOHN PIERPONT Poet's Biography
First Line: Escaped from all the perils of the sea
Last Line: Ne'er let them wear, o god, or forge a bondman's chains!
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs
First Line: Escaped from all the perils of the sea
Last Line: Ne'er let them wear, o god, or forge a bondman's chains!
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs
ESCAPED from all the perils of the sea, --
Storms, shoals, -- the angry and engulphing waves, --
Here stand we, on a savage shore, -- all free,
Thy freemen, Lord! and not of man the slaves.
Here will we toil and serve thee, till our graves
On these bleak hills shall open. -- When the blood
Thou pourest now so warm along our veins
Shall westward flow, till Mississippi's flood
Gives to our children's children his broad plains,
Ne'er let them wear, O God, or forge a bondman's chains!
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