 | Montana - 1908 - 460 pages
...imperishable glory of our pioneers, who, "Crossed the prairies, as of old their fathers crossed the se<i, To make the West, as they the East, the homestead of the free." to the Constitution of our State and Nation; and, finally to the lustre and splendor of the American... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 580 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 ! We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The nigged... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 556 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 ! We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | Vermont. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1878 - 416 pages
...Shall float the setting sun. " We'll tread the prairie, as of old, Our father's sailed the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free." While it may not have been an unmixed evil that so many of her sons should have left the borders of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1879 - 276 pages
...gallant and the free ! My native, native land, my Tennessee ! KANSAS. THE KANSAS EMIGRAKTS. Albert Pike. 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... | |
 | Hillsdale County (Mich.) - 1879 - 517 pages
...been found excellent for fence-posts, telegraph-poles, and railroad crossties. EARLY SETTLEMENT. " We cross the prairie as of old The Pilgrims crossed...West, as they the East, The homestead of the free. ######*# " We're flowing from our native hills As our free rivers flow ; The blessing of our motherland... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 276 pages
...gallant and the free ! My native, native land, my Tennessee ! Albert Pike. KANSAS. 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... | |
 | Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden - West (U.S.) - 1880 - 604 pages
...taken as an index of the growth of the State at large. THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS. 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. We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton tree The rugged... | |
 | Charles Sumner Gleed - Kansas - 1880 - 290 pages
...The very air seemed unlike any ever inhaled before as we " Crossed the prairies as of old our fathers crossed the sea, To make the West as they the East, the homestead of the free." The next day we reached the young city of Lawrence, the Mecca to which every Free State pilgrim sooner... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Birthday books - 1881 - 484 pages
...But she is sweeter than the mint and fairer than the flower. KING VOLMER AND ELSIE. MAY 7 MAY 8. 1 We cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed...West, as they the East, The homestead of the free ! THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS. John Brown of Ossawatomie spake on his dying day : " I will not have to shrive... | |
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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... 
