 | American literature - 1866 - 584 pages
...ere here, and all marching to the music of Whittier : 41 We cross the prairie as of old Our fathers crossed the sea ; To make the West, as they the East, The empire of the free." At night, you sometimes pitch your tent within half a mile of a thousand of these... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...tranquil-fronted, listening over all I"he tumult, hears the angels say, Well done 1 THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS. 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...tranquil-fronted, listening over all JChe tumult, hears the angels say, Well done I THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS. 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... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - History - 1869 - 664 pages
...emigrants. Whittier's lines, written at this period, were very expressive of northern sentiment : ' We cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West as they the East The household of the free. We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the... | |
 | 1908 - 1066 pages
...In Whittier's ringing lines is voiced the watchword of the " freeState " emigrant of the '50's : " We cross the prairie as of old The Pilgrims crossed...West, as they the East, The homestead of the free !" In the campaign that preceded the primaries of August 4 last, the plea for a " square deal " in... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1871 - 506 pages
...hears the angels say, Well done ! THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS. WK cross the prairie as of old The pilgrim-; 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 sonthern line. And plant hesids the cotton-tree The rngged... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pages
...tranquil-fronted, listening over all The tumult, hears the angels say, Well i lone ! THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS. 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... | |
 | George W. Pine - History - 1873 - 534 pages
...limited his settlement in this direction. CHAPTER VIL THE PLAINS. *' We cross the prairie as of old Th« pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West as they the .East The household of the free." Here we must wait till the rivers and streams which gather in the melted snows... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - History - 1875 - 692 pages
...poem written by Whittier: THE KANSAS EMIGRANT'S SONG. AIR — Auld Lang Syne. We cross the prairies as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the...West, as they the East, The homestead of the free. Cho— The homestead of the free, my boys, The "e ** °ur __ , . ... ,, . , . ,, The homestead of the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 316 pages
...over all The tumult, hears the angels say, Well done ! THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS. WE cross the prairie ae 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... 
