 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...which the emigrants sang as they rolled onward to their future homes : " We cross Hte prairies, us 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 meu On Freedom's Southeru line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...which the emigrants sang as they rolled onward to their future homes : " We cross Ihe prairies, (is 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 meu On Freedom's Southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | Danvers Historical Society - Antislavery movements - 1893 - 192 pages
...powerful aid of his verse, singing,— 146 We tread the prairie as of old Our fathers sniled the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free. Nor let us forget, while thinking of the grand effort that saved Kansas to Freedom, and gave us our... | |
 | Minna Caroline Smith - United States - 1894 - 230 pages
...poems, which boys and girls in the Kansas schools know by heart. Here are three of the stanzas: — 8. "We cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed...West, as they the East, The homestead of the free! 9. "We go to plant her common schools On distant prairie swells, And give the Sabbaths of her wild... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1894 - 100 pages
...by parties of emigrants, — sung when they started, sung as they rode, and sung in the new home.] 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 - American poetry - 1894 - 582 pages
...sung by parties of emigrants, sung when they started, sung as they rode, and sung in the new home."] WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed...West, as they the East, The homestead of the free t We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | William Henry Withrow - Indians of North America - 1895 - 210 pages
...institutions which shall be the corner-stone of our national greatness. To quote again from Whittier : We cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed...the 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 wild The... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Poetry - 1895 - 584 pages
...they Htarted. suug an the> rode, and »une; in tliu new honii!."J WK cross the prairie as of old 'Hie pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free I We go to rear n wall of men On Freedom's southern line. And plant Inside tho cotton-tree The ragged... | |
 | Darius Francis Lamson - Manchester (Mass.) - 1895 - 496 pages
...guard of liberty ; men who could say, " We tread the prairie a* of old Our fathers sailed the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free." In 1859, Mr. Tappan joined the Colorado pioneers, was a member of the first city government at Denver,... | |
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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... 
