• Above them spread a stranger sky;
      Around, the sterile plain;
    The rock-bound coast rose frowning nigh;
      Beyond,—the wrathful main:
    Chill remnants of the wintry snow
      Still choked the encumbered soil,
    Yet forth those Pilgrim Fathers go
      To mark their future toil.

    ’Mid yonder vale their corn must rise
      In summer’s...