The Pilgrim Toast for Thanksgiving Dinner

As you gather with family and friends around the Thanksgiving table, here is a spirited, festive toast or grace with which to commence your own bounteous feast: 

        "Heap high the board with plenteous cheer, and gather to the feast,
         And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.
         Give praise to that All-Gracious One by whom their steps were led,
         And thanks unto the harvest's Lord who sends our daily bread."     
         
         -- Alice Willams Brotherton