Rhymes _of_ Old Plimouth _By_ Herbert Randall Published by the Author Hartford, Conn. 1921 Copyright, 1921 By HERBERT RANDALL FOREWORD. If be it so--by chance--this little book should claim for me a friend, who, sometime, when I’m far away, shall search and find a bit of rosemary, swept through with light, and scatter it among the grasses where I sleep, Then, then will I have found the garland I had hoped to win, and from that quiet spot, that Land of Youth, where my immortal spirit dwells, I’ll send a little wandering prayer of gratitude, that heart hath answered heart. ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Acknowledgment is made to _The Outlook_, _The American Magazine_, _The Youth’s Companion_, _New England Magazine_, _The Nautilus_, _American Forestry Magazine_, _Boston Transcript_, _The Hartford Courant and The Hartford Times_, wherein have appeared many of the poems printed in this book. HERBERT RANDALL. INDEX. Foreword 3 Acknowledgment 4 To My Pilgrim Mother 7 The Tryst of Nations 8 Plymouth Rock 9 To the Standish Guards of the Old Colony 11 Burial Hill 13 The Old Road Down to Plymouth 14 Rose of Plymouth 15 The Angelus of Plymouth Woods 16 Plimoth Through an Old Spy Glass 17 The Dream That’s in the Sea 19 The Old Skipper 20 Romp of the Sea 21 The Derelict 22 Salt o’ the Sea 24 Mid-Ocean 25 Easterly Weather 26 “Outside” 28 Off 29 Dawn in Plymouth Harbor 30 Twin Lights 31 White Gulls 32 To the Red Man 33 To Massasoit 34 The Winnetuxet 35 Hymn Ancestral 36 Feel of the Wander-lure 37 Overheard at the Money Changers of Nineveh 38 The Innermost 39 The Autumn Rain 40 Cry of the Wounded Loon 41 The Old Bush Pasture 42 A Garland 43 The Umpame Musketeers 44 A Memory 46