 | 1901 - 604 pages
...Emigrant ' the spirited song commencing — ' 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.' VOL. OXCIU. NO. OOOXGV. 0 was popularly spoken of as the ' Keystone State '). Buchanan was certain... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...Pentecost. This is the Emigrants' Song: " We cross the prairies as of old Onr fathers cross'd the sea, To make the West as they the East, The homestead of...men On Freedom's Southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged Northern pine ! We go to plant our common schools On distant prairie swells,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1854 - 588 pages
...gonfalon Shall Bout the sitting sun ! We'll sweep the prairie as of old Our fathers swept the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free ! othyand clover made af;iir show, bu>tnow there is an exuberant growth of clover and chess, about... | |
 | Home missions - 1855 - 936 pages
...gonfalon Shall flout the setting яш ! We'll sweep the prairie, as of old Our fathers swept the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free I iaw Church Bella on the Pacific. I bear once more those mournful bell« Break on the Sabbath air,... | |
 | Choruses (Mixed voices) with piano - 1857 - 212 pages
...— F — и — I — * — ( — *The homestead of the free, my boys, The homestead of the free ; To make the West, as they the East, — The homestead of the free. -p !=^EEE£feEE • By permission of B. llrainard fe Co. Pabluhers, Cleveland, 0. " F. н. p. ALLEGRO.... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1859 - 356 pages
...gonfalon Shall flout the setting sun 1 We '11 sweep the prairie, as of old Our fathers swept the sea, And make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free ! STANZAS TO THE UNITED STATES. Adapted from Tait's Magazine. Too long it hath been said and sung,... | |
 | James Redpath - Abolitionists - 1860 - 436 pages
...Puritans, — who had crossed the sea for the same purpose that they were now crossing the prairie : " To make the West as they the East, The Homestead of the Free." • inquired if Wm. Thompson* was there. He found him, and they left the camp together. The Captain... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...say, Well done ! THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS. 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 I We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom's southern line And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged... | |
 | Iowa - 1915 - 784 pages
...the bones of the noted Sac chief. "THEY CROSSED THE PRAIRIES, AS OF OLD THE PILGRIMS CROSSED THE SEA, TO MAKE THE WEST. AS THEY THE EAST, THE HOMESTEAD OF THE FREE." ERECTED OCTOBER TWENTY-SECOND NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN. MARKING THE MORMON TRAIL. For some twenty... | |
 | Rebekah Wheeler Pomeroy Bulkley - Christian biography - 1865 - 212 pages
...mercies." CHAPTER VIII. LIFE IK KANSAS. " Wo cross the prairies, as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the west, as they the east, The homestead...men On Freedom's southern line, And plant beside the cotton-tree The rugged Northern pine. " We're flowing from our native hills As our free rivers flow... | |
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EMIGRANTS cross the prairie as of old The Pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free! 
