"When the Mayflower sailed on its lone way across the Atlantic it was at once the fruit of the past and the seed of the future. In that germ lay all that America has since become". --- And now America may elect a polytheist President ??

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Poetic Celebrations of the "Mayflower" ship and condemnation of Polytheism :


This paragraph in the title is from "Old Pilgrim days" (1920) by Lillian Hoag Monk.




Another poem that celebrates the "Mayflower Breed".

O Mother State, how quenched thy Sinai fires!
Is there none left of thy stanch Mayflower breed?
No spark among the ashes of thy sires,
Of Virtue's altar-flame the kindling seed?
Are these thy great men, these that cringe and creep,
And writhe through slimy ways to place and power?--
How long, O Lord, before thy wrath shall reap
Our frail-stemmed summer prosperings in their flower?
Oh for one hour of that undaunted stock
That went with Vane and Sidney to the block!


This is a poem of James Russell Lowell "To John Gorham Palfrey".

James Russell Lowell ( 1819 – 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets.

Both James Russell Lowell and John Gorham Palfrey suffered for being abolitionists. And that is why James Lowell Russell admired his friend John Gorham Palfrey.

And what would these pilgrim fathers of the Mayflower ship think of an America that may elect a Polytheist Mitt Romney.

For that is what the Mormon Religion is in essence.

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