--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Stephens, Evan collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 24 number: 2 published: 1920-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Stephens, Evan, "The Landing of the Pilgrims," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 2 (December 1920): 166–167.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2402unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2402unse start_page: 166 end_page: 167 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2402unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Landing of the Pilgrims The Landing of the Pilgrims MALE CHORUS Words by Felicia Hemans. Met. J — 100. Bold and Jirtn. f Music by Evan Stephens. esisSa SEE £*;*•_ 0 .* # m m C2_i *^_ f w r r. \ I w^^^EE^mmm 1. The breaking waves dash'd high, On a stern and rockbound 2. A - midst the storm they saag, And the stars heard and the 3. There were men with hoary hair, A - midst that pilgrim 4. What sought they thus a - far? Bright jewels of the ** *5— *= cbrfTi / D r 3 C r tr ^ i> C coast, And the woods, a - gainst a stormy sky, Their sea! And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the band — Why had they come to wither there A- mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They yuL, mr frfif-ptf-EfifE.f.N^ ^=^ 4. ^g^E^S={-=g=E gi - ant branches tost, And the heav - y night hung an - them of the free, The o - cean ea - gle way from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless ■ought a faith's pure shrine, Yes, call it ho - ly feS^ES^ 3 Si :t=f _(2j THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS 16? ifeip -0^- ■v=* ^mm -42-* dark, The hills and waters o'er, When a soard, From his nest by the white wave's foam, And the eye, Lit by her deep love's truth, There was ground, The soil where first they trod, They have ^mzmj^m^^mm^ _ — 4 r ^—