 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...day of Pentecost. This is the Emigrants' Song: " We cross the prairies as of old Onr fathers cross'd the sea, To make the West as they the East, The homestead of the free ! We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's Southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | Agriculture - 1854 - 588 pages
...THE KANSAS EMIGRANT. BY JG WIIITTIBR. We eróse the prairie аз of old The pilgrims croescd the se*, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free. We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's Southern line, And plant beside the cotton tree The rugged... | |
 | Home missions - 1855 - 936 pages
...gonfalon Shall flout the setting яш ! We'll sweep the prairie, as of old Our fathers swept the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free I iaw Church Bella on the Pacific. I bear once more those mournful bell« Break on the Sabbath air,... | |
 | Choruses (Mixed voices) with piano - 1857 - 212 pages
...who reigns a - bove, To him who reigns a Home. bove. ee^~ 150 w. 15| -,-0огЙРЕ|ЕГЕЕЕ^Е| 1. We cross the prairie as of old The Pilgrims crossed...West, as they the East, The homestead of the free— To 2. We go to rear a wall of men On freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton tree The... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 688 pages
...day of Pentecost. This is the Emigrants' Song: " We cross the prairies as of old Our fathers cross'd the sea, To make the West as they the East, The homestead of the free ! We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's Southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1859 - 356 pages
...stones, which in derision Still drive us back, to struggle up anew 1 THE WESTERN EMIGRANTS. JG WHITTIER. WE cross the prairie, as of old The Pilgrims crossed...West, as they the East, The homestead of the free. We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | William P. Tomlinson - Kansas - 1859 - 328 pages
...REMARKS, 297 KANSAS IN 1858. CHAPTEE I. UP THE MIS80UBI. " We cross the prairies as of old Our fathers crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The abode of the free."— WHITTIER. THE spring of the present year, 1858, was a busy season in the city... | |
 | James Redpath - Abolitionists - 1860 - 436 pages
...Puritans, — who had crossed the sea for the same purpose that they were now crossing the prairie : " To make the West as they the East, The Homestead of the Free." • inquired if Wm. Thompson* was there. He found him, and they left the camp together. The Captain... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...tranquil-fronted, listening over all The tumult, hears the angels say, Well done ! THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS. WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed...West, as they the East, The homestead of the free I We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | Rebekah Wheeler Pomeroy Bulkley - Christian biography - 1865 - 212 pages
...my Heavenly Father for His manifold mercies." CHAPTER VIII. LIFE IK KANSAS. " Wo cross the prairies, as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the...west, as they the east, The homestead of the free ! " We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
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WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free... 
