First Thanksgiving Poem
Enjoy the words to the First Thanksgiving Poem at this special time of the year. These online, free words can be printed and used to create a personalised Prayer book. Add to your collection of printable prayers which are suitable for different occasions. You will find the words help to remember the religious tradition of Thanksgiving.

First Thanksgiving Poem
We hope that the following words will express gratitude to God for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. Remember that these short, simple, online words can be printed and used to create a personalised Prayer Book.

Prayers for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day commemorates a feast which was held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag. A short, simple prayer, grace or blessing of thanks is given before the Thanksgiving dinner or meal remembering that "their youngest son said grace". Thanksgiving Prayer express gratitude to God for the things one has at the end of the harvest season.

First Thanksgiving Poem

If I had been a Pilgrim child
Among the fields and forests wild
Where deer and turkey used to roam,
A cabin would have been my home
With fireplace and earthen floor
And bearskins hanging at the door.

I would have gathered berries bright
For candles fragrantly alight,
And dug for clams and picked the corn
And laid the table smooth and worn.
Or hunted nuts hard-shelled and good
And helped in any way I could,
With time to laugh and play and run
When Indian children came for fun.

And on the first Thanksgiving Day
I would have met with friends to pray
And thank the Lord for all his care
In keeping us together there.

By Margaret Hillert

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First Thanksgiving Poem

Thanksgiving commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag. A short prayer, grace or blessing of thanks is given before the meal remembering that "their youngest son said grace". These Prayers express gratitude to God for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. Choose from our collection of Thanksgiving words and texts.

• Harvest Prayers & Poems
• Prayers of Thanks
• Grace
• Blessings
• First Thanksgiving Poem
• Prayers of Thanks
• Family Prayers
• Harvest Home Prayers
• Online Resource of Prayers