 | George Moore Fairchild - 1888 - 336 lehte
...steam, on 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 blooded horses will come... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 364 lehte
...The steamer 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...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... | |
 | 1889 - 856 lehte
...conscience is not disturbed in saying that we can at least agree with the great American poet that "we hear the first low wash of waves where soon shall roll a human sea." Already a railroad is talked of here, and the usual undue excitement is manifested. Every stranger... | |
 | William Seward Webb - 1890 - 324 lehte
...to thirty 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...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 lots are staked for sale... | |
 | 1890 - 524 lehte
...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...wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. WILUAM LEWIS JONES. Bangor. Y "GWRTHWYNEBWYR " YN HEB. x. 27. "Canys os o'u gwirfodd y pechwn, ar ol... | |
 | 1914 - 810 lehte
...And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers, Of cities yet to be — • The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea. IN these words of "Whittier is pictured forth the West that was to be and that which now is. The old has... | |
 | Edward Alexander Powell - 1914 - 718 lehte
...clinching down the rivets of empire. 386 XIV BACK OF BEYOND "I hear the tread of pioneers, Of millions 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, The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into... | |
 | Martha Emily Parmelee Rose, Mrs. William G. Rose - 1915 - 596 lehte
...convincing argument in favor of the admission of New Mexico to the Union. As I listened I thought: "I heard the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be, The first low rush of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea." But when the speaker said, "New Mexico is as large... | |
 | 1917 - 412 lehte
...these three were in the ranks. It was of this period and of these things that the poet 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. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and. warm. The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into... | |
 | Clement Augustus Lounsberry - 1919 - 838 lehte
...work is affectionately dedicated, by THE AUTHOR. Washington, D. C, February 27, 1919. PREFACE "I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be, The first...wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea." — John G. Whittier. More intensely interesting than a fairy tale is the story of the development... | |
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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. 
