 | Home missions - 1849 - 908 pages
...painted brows ; And crests of eagle wings. Behind the scared squaw's birch cauoe The steamer smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. By forest lake and water-fall I see the pedler's show ; The mighty mingling with the mean, The lofty... | |
 | Robert Bailey Thomas - Almanacs, American - 1860 - 628 pages
...both a little, and unite their good qualities in uuv. — iitiMtr.d. THE WEST. ВТ J- G. WHITTIEB. I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be ; The n.< low wash of waves where soon Shall r ",1' a human sea. The elements of empire here Are i>la*tic... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...their painted brows And crests of eagle-wings. Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe The steamer smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. By forest lakev and water-fall I see the pedlcr's show ; The mighty mingling with the mean, The lofty... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...and waterfall, I see the pedlar's show — The mighty mingling with the mean, The lofty with the low. I hear the tread of pioneers < Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves that soon Shall roll a human sea. The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm ; The chaos... | |
 | John Wesley Bond - Hudson Bay - 1853 - 404 pages
...learning ! Is it not true, even now, that — " 'Behind the scared squaw's birch 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... | |
 | J. W. BOND - 1853 - 388 pages
...not true, even now, that— Do we not " 'Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe, The steamer smokes and raves, And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves.* " ' hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be; The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll... | |
 | John Wesley BOND - Indians of North America - 1853 - 522 pages
...learning! Is it not true, even now, that — " 'Behind the scared squaw'a birch 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... | |
 | Agriculture - 1854 - 588 pages
...their painted bows, And crests of eagle wings. Behind the squaw's birchen canot* , The steamer smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. By forest lake and water-fall, I see the pedlar's show ¡ The mighty mingling with the mean The lofty... | |
 | John Wesley Bond, George Antoine Belcourt - Indians of North America - 1854 - 402 pages
...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 wnsh of wares where soon Shall roll a human sea? "'Each rude and jostling fragment soon Are plastic... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...their painted bows, And crest of eagle wings. Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe, The steamer smokos and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. By forest, lake, and water-fall, I see the peddler's show — The mighty mingling with the mean, The... | |
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I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, when.- soon Shall roll a human sea. 
