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Heart in Bloom

12 March 2006


As to a Mayflower
in view of a rose
Her being a blessing
this kindness of caress

Souls reaching one to end
only of beauty words can speak
Her eyes - her faith - her loving inside
A tuft of grass - a speck of light

Her lamp to enlighten
never to want anger to surpass
Of what this God doth deny by birth
distance as to a seed planted
Tradition having it to proclaim
the Mayflower - her heart in bloom


From a place in Plymouth, England to what would become the City of New Plymouth in New Zealand (population around 60,000), where a foundation of pioneering a new settlement was laid on 31 March 1841 (the third only European proclaimed New Zealand settlement of the time). Links with Plymouth, England, were as much to do with locality as location, in forms of worldwide colonies being established in terms of European migration to reach outward from such a heritage of beginning.

The port of Plymouth, England, was also where the “Mayflower” did set sail to a New World and a New England foundered in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. When on 25 December 1620, the Pilgrims of the Mayflower finally decided upon Plymouth, and began construction of their first buildings. To establish the Plymouth Colony, in what was then called the northern part of Virginia.

The Mayflower being the floral emblem of New Scotland (Nova Scotia, Canada) The delicate pink mayflower, blooming in the forest glades of early spring, signified Nova Scotia’s coming of age. As far back as 1820, the mayflower emerged as a native patriotic symbol. In 1901, by an Act of the Legislature, the Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens), commonly known as the mayflower, was declared to be the floral emblem of Nova Scotia, from time immemorial and suggesting high achievement in the face of adversity.


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