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For knowledge of his own eternal thoughts.
He meant not the prolific earth should lie
Incultivate, but, tilled with patient care,
Should smile with flowers as erst an Eden smiled,
And yield the culturing hand a rich reward.
'Twas His behest that bade the forest bow,
The savage beast retire, and savage men
Give place to cultivation, order, laws.

  A lonely bark came o'er the stormy sea;
Not freighted deep with pelf; it richer bore,
What famed Golconda's treasures could not buy,
A band of noble hearts. Men trod that deck
Who knew that they were men, and freely gave
For liberty and truth what else was dear.
No factious spirits, who, through spleen or pride,
Contemned their country's laws and roamed to find
What earth's circumference within, for them,
Was nowhere to be found, content and peace.
Of England's best, to her they fondly clung,
Proud of her glorious names and old renown;