 | Edwin James Stanley - Yellowstone National Park - 1878 - 236 pages
...the sceptre of the irrepressible white man. The words of Whittier came involuntarily into my mind : " I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be...wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea." Ere another decade, thought I, the iron horse will go puffing and snorting through these valleys, drawing... | |
 | Edwin James Stanley - Crow Indians - 1878 - 266 pages
...the sceptre of the irrepressible white man. The words of Whittier came involuntarily into my mind : " I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be...wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea." Ere another decade, thought I, the iron horse will go puffing and snorting through these valleys, drawing... | |
 | John Wesley Bond - Minnesota - 1878 - 104 pages
...as it is, and rapidly as it has been augmented, is but the first low wash of waves where soon will roll a human sea. " The rudiments of -empire here Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos of a mighty State Is rounding into form. "Each rude and jostling fragment soon Its fitting place shall rind ; x... | |
 | English poetry - 1879 - 322 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 rndiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 276 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 rndiments of empire herc Are plastic yet and warm; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form... | |
 | John Baird Loudon - Canada - 1879 - 142 pages
...beginning to come in an almost unbroken stream, so that the following lines will soon be realised : — I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be,...The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a living sea. The Prairie land looks very beautiful, it seems both rich and fertile. It is covered with... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 536 pages
...birch canoe, The steamer smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for salt Above old Indian graves. 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 a... | |
 | Jones County (Iowa) - 1879 - 686 pages
...forcibly do we realize the language of Whittier: " ' I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to he. The first low wash of waves, Where soon shall roll a human sea.' " " These were the times that tried men's souls some and women's more. We can hardly imagine the deprivations... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1880 - 234 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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1880 - 276 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,... | |
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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. 
