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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand 
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5171 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. a poet who cares |
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