 | Education - 1857 - 470 pages
...birch canoe The steamer smokes and paves, And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be...soon Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire there Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form. I will only detain... | |
 | Nathan Howe Parker - Indians of North America - 1857 - 176 pages
...birch canoe The steamer smokes and raves, And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. " I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be...wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea." FORT SNELLING. — After leaving St. Paul, by land, the first point of interest reached is Fort Snelling,... | |
 | Ashbel Steele - Biography & Autobiography - 1857 - 438 pages
...Soc. Coll., vol. i., new series, p. 357, &c. The preacher mentioned was Elder Brewster. CHAPTEE XXIX. I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be,...low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. — WHITTJER. PASSING on through the year 1628 into that of 1629, we find the Elder all along performing... | |
 | California - 1857 - 614 pages
...extermination of every relic of their race, burn the last remains of their untimely dead. ItlE PIONEER. 1 hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be ;...low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. Whittier. One of nature's noblemen; lord of cireumstances ; master over exigencies ; conqueror of the... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1857 - 812 pages
...be founded on the confines of the country, which a native poet, WHITTIER, so gushingly describes: " The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm,...The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form." The elements of the Institution around us are rough and crude, but •eren in the embryo we recognize... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1857 - 798 pages
...founded on the confines of the country, which a native poet, WHITTIER, so gushingly describes : 300 "The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm, The chaos of a mighty world la rounding into form." The elements of the Institution around us are rough and crude, but even in... | |
 | Emma V. Hallett - 1860 - 338 pages
...from home sighed " gone." Is there a heart which never knew the tone ? CHAPTER IV. AVESTWARD HO ! " I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be...wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea." JG WHITTJEK. " Par on the prairies of the West, A lovely floweret grows ; With glowing pen, each traveller... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...water-fall, I see the peddler's show — The mighty mingling with the mean, The lofty with the low. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be; The first low wash of waves that soon Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...birch canoe, The steamer smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, when.- soon Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos... | |
 | Agriculture - 1862 - 500 pages
...bless thy name, and weep The hopes low-buried in thy grave. The West. " I hear the tread of pioneer», Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea — The elements of £mpire here Are plastic yet and warm. 'I'lj.- chaos of a mighty world Is rounding luto... | |
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I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. 
