 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1884 - 254 pages
...imagination the future of our great West, and in some sort could make their own the words of the poet : I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be...wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. No such good fortune as they hoped awaited the two missionaries, however. One of them soon wasted away... | |
 | 1890 - 524 pages
...ydynt eto ond wedi dechreu eu cyfanneddu gan feibion dynion. Fel y canodd Whittier :• — I hoar the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first...wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. WILUAM LEWIS JONES. Bangor. Y "GWRTHWYNEBWYR " YN HEB. x. 27. "Canys os o'u gwirfodd y pechwn, ar ol... | |
 | Robert Bailey Thomas - Almanacs, American - 1860 - 628 pages
...both a little, and unite their good qualities in uuv. — iitiMtr.d. THE WEST. ВТ J- G. WHITTIEB. I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be ; The n.< low wash of waves where soon Shall r ",1' a human sea. The elements of empire here Are i>la*tic... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 144 pages
...birch canoe, The steamer smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be;...The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form! Each rude and jostling fragment soon Its fitting place shall find — The raw material of a State,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Gift books - 1850 - 644 pages
...whose seed The winds on some ungenial soil have east There, where it eannot prosper. Southey's Madoe. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be,...low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. Whittier. The emigrant's way o'er the Western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long eonsum'd, and bones... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1850 - 688 pages
...delightful exercise to raise ilis drooping head, and cheer his heart with joy. ADVICE TO WESTERN EMIGRANTS. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be,...low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. E •E, ' IT w one of the natural feelings of which we all, more or less, parUike, that our paternal... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1857 - 812 pages
...founded on the confines of the country, which a native poet, WHITTIER, so gushingly describes: 300 " The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm,...The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form." The elements of the Institution around us are rough and crude, but •eren in the embryo we recognize... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1851 - 142 pages
...birch canoe, The steamer smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be...The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form ! Each rude and jostling fragment soon Its fitting place shall find — The raw material of a State,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Liberia - 1853 - 340 pages
...friends could have ventured to hope — but not in America. CHAPTER V. THE PLANTING OF THE NATION. I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be...low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. WHITTIEE. THE truth of Machiavelli's maxim, that " to make a servile people free, is as difficult as... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Liberia - 1853 - 318 pages
...friends could have ventured to hope — -but not in America. CHAPTER V. THE PLANTING OF THE NATION. I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be...low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. WHITTIER. THE truth of Machiavelli's maxim, that " to make a servile people free, is as difficult as... | |
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I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. 
