I. The Pilgrim Fathers Well Worthy To Be Magnified Are They Who, With Sad Hearts, Of Friends And Country Took A Last Farewell, Their Loved Abodes Forsook, And Hallowed Ground In Which Their Fathers Lay; Then To The New-Found World Explored Their Way, That So A Church, Unforced, Uncalled To Brook Ritual Restraints, Within Some Sheltering Nook Her Lord Might Worship And His Word Obey In Freedom. Men They Were Who Could Not Bend; Blest Pilgrims, Surely, As They Took For Guide A Will By Sovereign Conscience Sanctified; Blest While Their Spirits From The Woods Ascend Along A Galaxy That Knows No End, But In His Glory Who For Sinners Died.