| 1882 - 1282 páginas
...and other circumstances." He said : We cross the prairies as of old The pilgrims crossed the i-ea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free ! We go to rear a wall of men On freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton tree The ragged... | |
| Robert Percival Porter, William Patterson Jones, Henry Gannett - 1882 - 666 páginas
...characters of the old pioneers — Who crossed the prairies, as of old Their fathers crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free; in their early constitutions and institutions ; by the success and the failure of their enterprises,... | |
| Delia Wood Lyman - 1883 - 754 páginas
...1859, and its admission as a free State in 1861. We '11 tread the prairie as of old Our fathers sailed the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free ! From WHITTIER'S Kansas Emigrant. WEDNESDAY January 30 Early American Coins. — In 1652 the Indian... | |
| Mary A. Humphrey - 1883 - 382 páginas
...voices joined the choir in singing: " We cross the prairies as of old The Pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free." This closed the exercises for the morning, and Arthur stepped forward hastily to assist Grace in descending... | |
| Mary A. Humphrey - 1883 - 374 páginas
...voices joined the choir in singing: " We cross the prairies as of old The Pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free." This closed the exercises for the morning, and Arthur stepped forward hastily to assist Grace in descending... | |
| Blackwood William and sons - 1884 - 284 páginas
...Pilgrim gonfalon Shall flout the setting sun ! 7. We'll tread the prairie as of old Our fathers sailed the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free ! JG WHITTIEK. gon'-fal-on, a standard or banner. | flout, mock. 1. Pilgrims, the Pilgrim Fathers,... | |
| United States. 49th Cong., 1st sess., 1885-1886, United States. Congress - 1886 - 56 páginas
...prairie State was yet the far west. He — Crossed the prairies as of old Our fathers crossed the sea, To make the West as they the East, The homestead of the free. The early history of the West is the prophecy; the later history is the fulfillment. The one is hope,... | |
| 1886 - 594 páginas
...to the notes of Whittier's hymn : " We cross the prairies, as of old Our fathers crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free." Another conspicuous defect in Mr. Sanborn's story is his failure to sketch in the accessory figures.... | |
| William Lawrence - 1888 - 326 páginas
...Emigrants " written by Mr. Whittier : — " We cross the prairie as of old The Pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free ! " We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 392 páginas
...Pilgrim gonfalon Shall flout the setting sun ! We '11 tread the prairie as of old Our fathers sailed the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free ! VOL. at. 12 LETTER FROM A MISSIONARY OP THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH, IN KANSAS, TO A DISTINGUISHED... | |
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