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Endecott
Amidst a band of worthies bold and trueThe noble Endecott was in the van,
The gallant leader of the suffering few,
Who gloried in the name of Puritan.
Austere and strict was he, yet kind and pure,
Above the common level he had risen;
And, taught by Persecution to endure,
His hopes, like theirs, were fixed on God, and heaven.
His wife and children with him too embark,
His firm attachment to the cause to prove;
What precious freight was trusted to that ark!
Of Faith and Hope, of Purity and Love;
When were such treasures on the ocean cast
The sport of the wild waves, and stormy blast?
Poem No. 39; c. 1878–80
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