This One Thing Poem by Winifred Emma May

Westward sailed the Mayflower pilgrims to a better land -
Where in freedom they might live - as Puritans to stand -
For liberty of mind and soul, prepared to sacrifice
- all they had for this one thing: the pearl beyond all price ...

Thus did they fulfill the Jacobean prophecy -
That the sons of Joseph in the course of time should be -
Two great nations working out God's plan from age to age:
Ephraim and Manasseh, heirs to Israel's heritage.

Our Anglo-Saxon ancestry - the bond of blood we share -
Is this secret and the strength of this our common prayer:
Forgive us our iniquities as we in patience -
Ask a blessing for ourselves and our inheritance.