 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1892 - 608 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 rngged... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...song which the emigrants sang as they rolled onward to their future homes: " 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 Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...song which the emigrants sang as they rolled onward to their future homes : " 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 lo rear a wall of men On Freedom's Southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 408 pages
...that ground between Freedom and Slavery. The opponents of the movement used another kind of weapon. WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 438 pages
...that ground between Freedom and Slavery. The opponents of the movement used another kind of weapon. WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, i ! We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 394 pages
...that ground between Freedom and Slavery. The opponents of the movement used another kind of weapon. WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 398 pages
...that ground between Freedom and Slavery. The opponents of the movement used another kind of weapon. WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | John Henry Barrows - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 600 pages
...sent the Mayflower across the Atlantic was not extinguished. Whittier sang of 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... | |
 | Ishbel Gordon Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair - Canada - 1893 - 276 pages
...with a noble ambition for them, that they may be able to say with others who have gone before — " We cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed...West, as they the East, The homestead of the free. " We go to plant her common schools On distant prairie swells, And give the Sabbaths of the wilds The... | |
 | Hutchinson (Kan.) - 1893 - 158 pages
...numbers the settlers in Kansas soon sang with Whittier those familiar lines: "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 plant oar common schools On distant prairie swells, And give the Sabbaths of the wild The... | |
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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... 
