IF WE HAD LIVED WHEN FIRST THE PILGRIMS CAME.
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If we had lived, when first the Pilgrims came, Founding on a rock their future fame; Humbly would we celebrate the day Love alone can make care free and gay. If we had lived when Freedom’s cause was young, Often would the heart be sorrow wrung; Yet when war and famine thinned our ranks Find its sweetest joy in giving thanks. If we had lived, no light on either hand, Trusting, when we could not understand; Pressed by want and danger all the way Thankful would we then have been to-day.