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What people has to-day / Such faith as launched and sped, / With psalm and prayer, the Mayflower on its way? -- / Such faith as led / The Dorchester fishers to this sea-washed point, / This granite headland of Cape Ann? / Where first they made their bed, / Salt-blown and wet with brine, / In cold and hunger, where the storm-wrenched pine / Clung to the rock with desperate footing.
They, / With hearts courageous whom hope did anoint, / Despite their tar and tan, / Worn of the wind and spray, / Seem more to me than man, / With their unconquerable spirits.