 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1884 - 254 pages
...sort could make their own the words of the poet : I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 144 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1850 - 688 pages
...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 pages
...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 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... | |
 | J. W. BOND - 1853 - 388 pages
...are staked for sale Above old Indian graves.* " ' 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 rounding... | |
 | John Ludlum McConnel - History - 1853 - 400 pages
...human, enterprise. 5* III. THE PIOISTEEK. " I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be — The first low 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... | |
 | John Wesley Bond - Canada - 1853 - 406 pages
...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 rounding... | |
 | John Wesley Bond - Hudson Bay - 1853 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Liberia - 1853 - 340 pages
...America. CHAPTER V. THE PLANTING OF THE NATION. I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be ; The first 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 - Liberia - 1853 - 318 pages
...America. CHAPTER V. THE PLANTING OF THE NATION. I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be ; The first 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. 
