 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1884 - 254 oldal
...the future of our great West, and in some sort could make their own the words of the poet : I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first...wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. No such good fortune as they hoped awaited the two missionaries, however. One of them soon wasted away... | |
 | 1849 - 908 oldal
...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 wavel where loan Shall roll a human tea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet, and warm ; The... | |
 | 1849 - 638 oldal
...water-fall I see the pedlcr'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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 144 oldal
...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...jostling fragment soon Its fitting place shall find — The raw material of a State, Its muscle and its mind ! And, westering still, the star which leads... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1850 - 688 oldal
...exercise to raise ilis drooping head, and cheer his heart with joy. ADVICE TO WESTERN EMIGRANTS. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first...low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. E •E, ' IT w one of the natural feelings of which we all, more or less, parUike, that our paternal... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1851 - 142 oldal
...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...jostling fragment soon Its fitting place shall find — The raw material of a State, Its muscle and its mind ! And, westering still, the star which leads... | |
 | John Wesley Bond - 1853 - 404 oldal
...steamer smokes and raves, And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves." Do we not " ' hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be; The first...low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea? " ' Each rude and jostling fragment soon Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos of a mighty world Is... | |
 | John Ludlum McConnel - 1853 - 400 oldal
...pages of history show in any other department of human, enterprise. 5* III. THE PIOISTEEK. " I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be — The...wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea." WHITTIER, The axe rang sharply 'mid those forest shades Which, from creation, toward the sky had towered... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1853 - 340 oldal
...friends could have ventured to hope — but not in America. CHAPTER V. THE PLANTING OF THE NATION. I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be ; The...low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. WHITTIEB. THE truth of Machiavelli's maxim, that " to make a servile people free, is as difficult as... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1853 - 318 oldal
...could have ventured to hope — -but not in America. CHAPTER V. THE PLANTING OF THE NATION. I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be ; The...low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. WHITTIER. THE truth of Machiavelli's maxim, that " to make a servile people free, is as difficult as... | |
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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. 
