 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers (Elementary) - 1880 - 236 pages
...canoe The steamer smoke^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 wavesj where soon Shall roll a human sea. * The rudiments of empire here t c. \ Are prastic yet and... | |
 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) - Colonies - 1880 - 460 pages
...settled country where the production of its wealth is carried on. The poet speaks of— " The tramp of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves, where soon Will roll a human sea." The agricultural settlement of the northern districts of South Australia... | |
 | I. Winslow Ayer - West (U.S.) - 1880 - 540 pages
...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 570 pages
...canoe, Th« steamer smokes and raves : And city lots are staked for sal» Ahove old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, wh«re soon Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos... | |
 | Augustus Allen Hayes - Colorado - 1881 - 214 pages
...neared 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 low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea." III. — THE SOLDIEE. Fort Leavenworth, on the Missouri, between... | |
 | Augustus Allen Hayes - Colorado - 1881 - 208 pages
...neared 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 low wish of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.'' In. — THE SOLDIER. Fort Leavenworth, on the Missouri,... | |
 | Lake County (Calif.) - 1881 - 1056 pages
...further facts or dates in reference to it. / 7 ; GENERAL HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT. " I hear the tramp of pioneers — Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a living sea." " O'er the mountain's height, Like ocean in its tided might, The... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1882 - 616 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... | |
 | Medicine - 1882 - 402 pages
...in this great land of ours — this land of which the poet, scarce a hall' centurj- ago, sang — "I hear the tread of pioneers of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon shall roll a human sea ; " and where the human sea already rolls — yea, has rolled across... | |
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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. 
