The Catholics In Maryland

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Title:     The Catholics In Maryland
Author: Edward Doyle [More Titles by Doyle]

Of Expeditions in the Arctic Past,
All honor to the one that reached the pole
And formed a settlement where every soul
Enjoyed full freedom. There above the blast,
How musical the bell, by Justice cast!
It welcomed all to come. It ceased to toll
After a while, but why? Those, welcomed, stole
And dragged it where the ice formed thick and fast.

Of Arctic Expeditions there is none
So profitable to the human race
As that toward Freedom's pole, and hence men face
All storms to reach it. If they fail, the sun
Has but one joy--to thaw out wrecks, and trace
Man's progress where alone it can be done.

[The end]
Edward Doyle's poem: Catholics In Maryland

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