 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1863 - 282 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...The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form." \ The elements of the Institution are rough and crude, but . even in the embryo, we recognize an enlightened... | |
 | Great Lakes (North America) - 1863 - 230 pages
...water-fiill, I see the peddler's show ; The mifihty mingling with the mean, The lofty with the low. 1 hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves where soon Khali roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm; The chaos of a mighty... | |
 | 1849 - 636 pages
...and water-fall I see the pedler'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 where SOOB Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet, and warm ; The chaos of... | |
 | American literature - 1866 - 570 pages
...The steamer rocks and ravee. And city lote are staked for sale Above old Indian gravea. " I bear tbe tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be — The first...plastic yet and warm ; The chaos of a mighty world IB rounding into form." Soon Montana will ask admission to the Union as a sovereign State. At present,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 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 chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form ! Each rude and jostling fragment soon Its fitting place shall find — The raw material of a State,... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - Biography - 1867 - 1030 pages
...raves, And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers 01' nations yet to be — The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea." The growth of Minnesota especially, since its organization, has been startling. Its whole population, in... | |
 | 1866 - 494 pages
...blrch canoe The Bteamer rocks and raves, And city lot* are staked for sale Ahove old Indian graves. " I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be— The flr- i low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human eea. " The rudiments of empire here Arc plastic... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 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. The'rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - History - 1869 - 664 pages
...birch canoe, The steamer rocks and raves ; And city lots are staked for s&le Above old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be...The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form. WHITTIIS. How canst thou walk in these streets, who hast trod the green turf of the prairies ? How... | |
 | Clinton Carter Hutchinson - Kansas - 1871 - 300 pages
...' . a ' . ' - m FIFTEEN YEARS EXPERIENCE. BY CC HUTCHINSON. WITH A NEW MAP AND FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS. "The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet, and...The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form." TOPEKA, KANSAS: UTi" TM-J3 1871. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year AD 1871, by CC HUTCHINSON,... | |
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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. 
