 | Marion Vienna Churchill Dudley - 1887 - 318 pages
...the Menomonees, the Winnebagoes, the Outagamies and the Sauks, have melted away " Before the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea." That human sea has rolled in from old England and New England, swollen by... | |
 | George Moore Fairchild - Canada - 1888 - 336 pages
...horse-back and mule-back, and in the slow lumbering " ships of the prairie " — We hear the tread of pioneers of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon shall roll a human sea. If Manitoba is to supply the world with bread, the succulent beefsteaks and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 366 pages
...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 soon Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos of a mighty... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 364 pages
...smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. 4 I bear 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... | |
 | 1890 - 524 pages
...ond wedi dechreu eu cyfanneddu gan feibion dynion. Fel y canodd Whittier :• — I hoar the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. WILUAM LEWIS JONES. Bangor. Y "GWRTHWYNEBWYR " YN HEB. x. 27. "Canys os o'u... | |
 | William Seward Webb - Alaska - 1890 - 320 pages
...thousand dollars. Whittier may have had such Western towns in view when he wrote. : I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be — The first low wash of waves Where soon shall roll a human sea. Behind the squaw's light birch canoe The steamer smokes and raves, And city... | |
 | Edward Duffield Neill - Frontier and pioneer life - 1890 - 62 pages
...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 9 Shall roll a human sea ?" On Wednesday, the 1st of January, 1851 the second Legislature assembled... | |
 | United States - 1893 - 770 pages
...Columbus, anticipated all others in the discoveries of the American continent: — Theirs was the tread of pioneers. Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. The next point of interest connected with Columbus in our Spanish pilgrimage... | |
 | Helen Haines - Indians of North America - 1891 - 668 pages
...white-covered wagons and the quaint old town of Santa Fe was roused to new life by " . . . . the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea." In 1821 the Mexican revolution occurred, and New Mexico passed from the province... | |
 | Vermont. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1892 - 408 pages
...extend the area of freedom, or enlarge the borders of Christianity. Their's has ever been " The tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea." Foremost in war as in peace, they have fought for their country all the way... | |
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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. 
