 | Illinois Farmers' Institute - Agriculture - 1899 - 590 pages
...pioneers who made this settlement in 1832 — men and women who crossed the prairies of the west as the pilgrims crossed the sea, to make the west as they the east — the homestead of the free. Their hardships and deeds are a part of the nation's history. Some of the names you hear this week... | |
 | Joel Cook - Canada - 1900 - 700 pages
...England emigration to Kansas in those momentous times inspired Whittier's poem, 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 Rice Carpenter - English language - 1900 - 162 pages
...Queene. (3) The familiar iambic quatrain. Several forms are especially common or interesting : — (a) " We cross the prairie as of old The Pilgrims crossed...West, as they the East, The homestead of the free." — WHITTIER. (b) " O listen, listen, ladies gay ! No haughty feat of arms I tell ; Soft is the note,... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - English language - 1900 - 440 pages
...Queene. (3) The familiar iambic quatrain. Several forms are especially common or interesting : — (a) " We cross the prairie as of old The Pilgrims crossed...West, as they the East, The homestead of the free." — WHITTIER. (b) " O listen, listen, ladies gay ! No haughty feat of arms I tell ; Soft is the note,... | |
 | Joel Cook - Canada - 1900 - 708 pages
...England emigration to Kansas in those momentous times inspired Whittier's poem, 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... | |
 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - History - 1971 - 1530 pages
...gonfalon Shall flout the setting sun! We'll tread the prairie as of old Our fathers sailed the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free! in Spain attempting to acquire Cuba for the US!, tries to use Black Warrior incident to gain island... | |
 | American Philological Association - Classical philology - 1916 - 346 pages
...that are, not going to be, good ; Waller's She flatters with the same success she frowned ; Whittier's To make the West. as they the East, The homestead of the free ; and in a large number of the epigrammatic monostichs of Pope. Double duty of a single word is recognized... | |
 | Theodore Christian Blegen - History - 1975 - 774 pages
...expounded in song around the country: We'll cross the prairies as of old The Pilgrims crossed the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The Homestead of the Free! The ebullience of westward migrants, it may be noted, is reflected in not a few ballads, one of which... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - History - 1955 - 468 pages
...had brought along a copy of Whittier's poems, and he walked ahead of the wagons, singing with Plumb: We cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea. Plumb could not sing a note but made plenty of noise striding along, coatless and in high-heeled boots,... | |
 | Daniel Fitzgerald - Travel - 1988 - 376 pages
...their comfortable New England homes for the unknown and Crossed the prairies as of old, The pilgrim crossed the sea, To make the West as they the East, The homestead of the free.9 To visit Wabaunsee, take state Highway 99 south from Wamego. Turn west at the junction with... | |
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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... 
