Excerpt from The Dutch Pilgrim Fathers: And Other Poems, Humorous and Not Humorous Some people have some shame, but some have none Some take their own, some theirs and others' too The greedy dog who lost his dainty bone By trying to rob his shadow did not do A meaner thing than many men have done, Who may yet, like said dog, their meanness rue By claiming all good fathers, great and small, It may turn out they 've had just none at all. The old Dutch Pilgrims were a solid race, A mixture of good French and Holland blood Honest enough to look in any face, Fearless to brave all things to serve their God. Such lineage may good Knickerbockers trace, To noble men as earth have ever trod And yet how few, with ready pen or tongue, Have writ their virtues, or their praises sung! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.