 | 1849 - 908 pages
...chiefs with their 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 with the low. I hear... | |
 | 1849 - 638 pages
...come From Mississippi's springs ; And war-chiefs with their painted brows And crests of eagle-wings. Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe The steamer...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 with the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 144 pages
...in the mine, The axe-stroke in the dell, The clamor from the Indian lodge, The Jesuit chapel bell ! I see the swarthy trappers come From Mississippi's...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... | |
 | John Wesley Bond - 1853 - 404 pages
...schoolhouse, the church-spire, and higher seminary of learning ! Is it not true, even now, that — " 'Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe, The steamer...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
...schoolhouse, the church-spire, and higher seminary of learning ! Is it not true, even now, that— Do we not " 'Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe, The steamer...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 - 1853 - 406 pages
...schoolhouse, the church-spire, and higher seminary of learning ! Is it not true, even now, that — " 'Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe, The steamer...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... | |
 | John Wesley Bond - 1853 - 522 pages
...church-spire, and higher seminary of 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... | |
 | 1853 - 458 pages
...The war-chiefs with their painted hows, And crest of eagle wings. *, Behind the scared squaw's hirch canoe, The steamer smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Ahove old Indian graves. By forest, lake, and waterfall, I see the pedlar's show — The mighty mingling... | |
 | 1854 - 588 pages
...war-chiefs with 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 with the low. I... | |
 | Nathan Howe Parker - 1857 - 176 pages
...the lakes adjacent ; for, in the language of John G. Whittier, our American poet: " Behind the red squaw's birch canoe The steamer smokes and raves,...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... | |
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Behind the scared squaw's birch 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. 
