| 1879 - 322 Seiten
...Of nations yet to be; The first low 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 ! Each rnde and jostling fragment soon Its fitting place shall find, — The... | |
| 1879 - 686 Seiten
...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 - 1880 - 234 Seiten
...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...plastic yet and warm ; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form ! Each rude and jostling fragment soon Its fitting place shall find, — The... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 276 Seiten
...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...plastic yet and warm; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form ! Each rude and jostling fragment soon Its fitting place shall find, — The... | |
| William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 242 Seiten
...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...plastic yet and warm ; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form ! Each rude and jostling fragment soon Its fitting place shall find, — The... | |
| James Osborne Putnam - 1880 - 446 Seiten
...train of States yet to arise out of the now western wilds beyond the floods of the Kansas. " I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first...wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea." What is their greeting by the democratic party, as, robed in beauty and glory, they advance from the... | |
| Augustus Allen Hayes - 1880 - 218 Seiten
...the Missouri on the return from their earlier trip, might well have said with 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." III. — THE SOLDIER. Fort Leavenworth, on the Missouri, between Kansas City and Atehison, was established... | |
| John Waddell Van Sickle - 1880 - 248 Seiten
...ended, spent the larger portion of tfao night »« dancing and other Innocent amusements." "I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be, The first...wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea,"— WHITTISB, 6. VI. Abraham Van Sickle, the first child of Catharine (Huffman) and Peter, was born in... | |
| I. Winslow Ayer - 1880 - 540 Seiten
...farm is somewhat extensive—and rather more so than the general public suppose. "I hear the tread^of pioneers, Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a. human sea. The elements of empire here Are plastic yet and warm, And the chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1880 - 464 Seiten
...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, where soonj Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos of... | |
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