The Proceedings at the Cushman Celebration, at Plymouth, August 15, 1855: In Commemoration of the Embarkation of the Plymouth Pilgrims from Southampton, England; Together with an Account of the Services at the Grave of Elder Thomas Cushman, August 16, 1855

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Página 67 - FROM all that dwell below the skies. Let the Creator's praise arise; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word: Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Página 27 - Muse's flame. far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, their sober wishes never learned to stray; along the cool sequestered vale of life they kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Página 4 - Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Página 75 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Página 71 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon, and scallop-shell ; Farewell! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were — with you, the moral of his strain.
Página 71 - We know, that no inscription, on entablatures less broad than the earth itself, can carry information of the events we commemorate where it has not already gone ; and that no structure, which shall not outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial.
Página 5 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Página 19 - ... you; but above all, it shall go well with your souls, when that God of peace and unity shall come to visit you with death as He hath done many of your associates, you being found of Him, not in murmurings, discontent and jars, but in brotherly love, and peace, may be translated from this wandering wilderness unto that joyful and heavenly Canaan.
Página 20 - And you my loving friends the adventurers to this plantation ; as your care has been, first to settle religion here, before either profit or popularity, so I pray you, go on, to do it much more...
Página 71 - But our object is, by this edifice, to show our own deep sense of the value and importance of the achievements of our ancestors; and, by presenting this work of gratitude to the eye, to keep alive similar sentiments, and to foster a constant regard for the principles of the Revolution.

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