Heaven speed you, noble band! <br />Link'd together, heart and hand, <br />Sworn to seek that far-off land, <br />Canterbury Pilgrims,- <br />Heaven speed you! brothers brave, <br />Waft you well by wind and wave; <br />Heaven shield you! Heaven save! <br />Canterbury Pilgrims! <br /> <br />Like a queen of swarming bees, <br />England, hived amid the seas, <br />Sends you by a favouring breeze, <br />Canterbury Pilgrims,- <br />With a mother's tender care, <br />To her southern sister there, <br />Her young sister, fresh and fair, <br />Canterbury Pilgrims! <br /> <br />Fresh the soil, and fair the clime, <br />Lightly touch'd by toil or time, <br />Scarcely tinged with are or crime, <br />Canterbury Pilgrims,- <br />Go then, cheerfully go forth! <br />Hasten to replenish earth <br />With Old England's honest worth, <br />Canterbury Pilgrims! <br /> <br />Ay - with industry - for gold, <br />Godliness - for wealth untold, <br />Go, in Christian duty bold, <br />Canterbury Pilgrims,- <br />Glad New Zealand bids you share <br />Each man plenty, and to spare,- <br />God be with you then and there, <br />Canterbury Pilgrims!<br /><br />Martin Farquhar Tupper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-canterbury-pilgrims-a-god-speed/
