Original message: Hi Dorothy, How does the poem "song of the Pilgrims" start out? Regina The poem is unfortunately cut short, with a notation stating it is continued on the next leaf, which dreadfully must not to have been rescued with the rest of the journal. Here is the verse I have: "Song of the Pilgrims" The breeze has swelled the whitening sails; The blue waves curl beneath the gale, And boarding with the wave and wind, We leave old England's shores behind:- Leave behind our native shore, Homes and all we loved before. The deep may wash, the winds may blow; The storm spread out its wings of wo (sic), Till sailor's eyes can see a shroud, Hung in the folds of every cloud; Still, as long as life shall last, From that shore we'll speed us fast. For we would rather never be, There dwell where mind cannot be free, But bows beneath a despot rod,... Dot Dresher, PA