Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

The Pilgrim, and the American of Today—(1892)

Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900· 2 chapters· 4,322 words

This December evening, the imagination, by a law of contrast, recalls another December night two hundred and seventy years ago. The circle of darkness is drawn about a little group of Pilgrims who have come ashore on a sandy and inhospitable coast. On one side is a vexed and w...

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1. Chapter 1

This December evening, the imagination, by a law of contrast, recalls another December night two hundred and seventy years ago. The circle of darkness is drawn about a little gr...

2. Chapter 2

This has been the longing of humanity. Poets have sung of it; prophets have had visions of it; statesmen have striven for it; patriots have died for it. There must be somewhere,...