 | Edward Harold Mott - Presidents - 1909 - 62 pages
...thwarting mights— The uncleared forests, the unbroken soil, The iron-bark, that turns the lumberer's axe, The rapid, that o'erbears the boatman's toil, The...were the needs that helped his youth to train; Rough culture—but such trees large fruit may bear, If but their stocks be of right girth and grain. So... | |
 | John Bigelow - France - 1909 - 658 pages
...thwarting mights;— The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron bark that turns the lumberer's axe, The ambushed Indian, and the prowling bear— Such...were the needs that helped his youth to train: Rough culture—but such trees large fruit may bear, If but their stocks be of right girth and grain. So... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 1909 - 414 pages
...unbroken soil, The iron-bark, that turns the lumberer's axe, The rapid, that o'erbears the boatsman's toil, The prairie, hiding the mazed wanderer's tracks,...Indian, and the prowling bear ; — Such were the deeds that helped his youth to train : Rough culture, — but such trees large fruit may bear, If but... | |
 | Horatio Sheafe Krans - 1909 - 186 pages
...thwarting mights; The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron bark, that turns the lumberer's axe, The rapid that o'erbears the boatman's toil, The prairie, hiding the mazed wanderers' tracks, The ambushed Indian, the prowling bear, — Such were the deeds that helped his... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Ethnology - 1910 - 492 pages
...battle of life. "The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron bark that turns the lumberer's axe ; The rapid that o'erbears the boatman's toil, The prairie,...If but their stocks be of right girth and grain." Lincoln served as a flatboatman on the Mississippi, and after a trip to New Orleans returned to New... | |
 | John Bigelow - France - 1909 - 658 pages
...thwarting mights;— The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron bark that turns the lumberer's axe, The ambushed Indian, and the prowling bear— Such were the needs that helped his youth to train: Bough culture—but such trees large fruit may bear, If but their stocks be of right girth and grain.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 816 pages
...thwarting mights: The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron bark that turns the lumberer's axe, The rapid that o'erbears the boatman's toil. The prairie...ambushed Indian, and the prowling bear, — Such were the deeds that helped his youth to train; Rough culture, but such trees large fruit may bear, If but their... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - Readers - 1919 - 456 pages
...mights,— 5 The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron bark, that turns the lumberer's axe, The rapid that o'erbears the boatman's toil, The prairie,...tracks, The ambushed Indian, and the prowling bear, — ^^.:. 10 Such were the deeds that helped his youth to train: Rough culture, but such trees large... | |
 | 1919 - 468 pages
...thwarting mights — The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron-bark, that turns the lumberer's axe, The rapid, that o'erbears the boatman's toil, The prairie, hiding the mazed wanderer's tracks, [154] ABRAHAM LINCOLN— [Con tinned] The ambushed Indian, and the prowling bear — Such were the... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - Readers - 1921 - 440 pages
...thwarting mights — The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron bark that turns the lumberer's ax, The rapid that o'erbears the boatman's toil, The prairie, hiding the mazed wanderer's tracks, is The ambushed Indian, and the prowling bear — Such were the needs that helped his youth to train... | |
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Rough culture, but such trees large fruit may bear, If but their stocks be of right girth and grain. So he grew up, a destined work to do, And lived to do it: four long-suffering years... 
