 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1884 - 254 pages
...imagination 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 low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. No such good fortune as they hoped awaited the two missionaries,... | |
 | 1890 - 524 pages
...ydynt eto 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... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1850 - 688 pages
...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 144 pages
...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 low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet, and warm; The chaos... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Gift books - 1850 - 644 pages
...whose seed The winds on some ungenial soil have east There, where it eannot prosper. Southey's Madoe. 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 emigrant's way o'er the Western desert is mark'd by... | |
 | John Wesley Bond - Hudson Bay - 1853 - 404 pages
...canoe, The 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... | |
 | John Wesley Bond - Canada - 1853 - 522 pages
...canoe, The 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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Liberia - 1853 - 340 pages
...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 first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. WHITTIEE. THE truth of Machiavelli's maxim, that " to make a servile... | |
 | John Ludlum McConnel - Frontier and pioneer life - 1853 - 400 pages
...the 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 first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea." WHITTIER, The axe rang sharply 'mid those forest shades Which,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Liberia - 1853 - 318 pages
...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 first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. WHITTIER. THE truth of Machiavelli's maxim, that " to make a servile... | |
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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. 
