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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. "
The Science of Discourse: A Rhetoric for High Schools and Colleges - Page 332
by Arnold Tompkins - 1897 - 353 pages
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Tales and Ballads

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...
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The Home Missionary, Volumes 21-23

Home missions - 1849 - 908 pages
...and water-fall I see the pedler's show ; The mighty mingling with the mean, The lofty with the low. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of wavel where loan Shall roll a human tea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet, and warm ; The...
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The (Old) Farmer's Almanack, Issues 69-78

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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 20

American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...and water-fall I see the pedlcr's show ; The mighty mingling with the mean, The lofty with the low. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves where SOOB Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet, and warm ; The chaos of...
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Songs of Labor, and Other Poems

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,...
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The Farmer's Every-day Book: Or, Sketches of Social Life in the Country ...

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...
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Western Characters

John Ludlum McConnel - Frontier and pioneer life - 1853 - 400 pages
...as the pages of history show in any other department of human, enterprise. 5* III. THE PIOISTEEK. " I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be...wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea." WHITTIER, The axe rang sharply 'mid those forest shades Which, from creation, toward the sky had towered...
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Liberia: Or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments

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. WHITTIEB. THE truth of Machiavelli's maxim, that " to make a servile people free, is as difficult as...
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Liberia: Or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments

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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Minnesota and Its Resources: To which are Appended Campfire Sketches, Or ...

John Wesley Bond - Hudson Bay - 1853 - 404 pages
...steamer smokes and raves, And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves." Do we not " ' hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be; The...low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea? " ' Each rude and jostling fragment soon Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos of a mighty world Is...
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