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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE VAN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography
First Line: True touchstone lives are these, and test our
Last Line: Think we find health, and wealth, and fame -- behind!
Subject(s): Pioneers
First Line: True touchstone lives are these, and test our
Last Line: Think we find health, and wealth, and fame -- behind!
Subject(s): Pioneers
True touchstone lives are these, and test our gold, --
Such years as Judson spent, and Patteson,
Moffat and Carey, Gilmour, Hannington,
Martyn the saint, and Gardiner the bold,
Brainerd and Livingstone, -- ah, who has told
In fitting speech the deeds these men have done,
Defeats endured and gallant battles won,
Their pains and prayers and patience manifold?
They stood in the front of the world, and all alone
They fought the dismal fiends of outer night,
Chanted their battle hymns, and made no moan
When goods, health, love, fell from them in the fight.
They fought in the front of the world, and we, the blind,
Think we find health, and wealth, and fame -- behind!
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THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM JAY SMITH
THE BALLAD OF WILLIAM SYCAMORE (1790-1880) by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
ON THE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA AND PEOPLING WESTERN COUNTRY by PHILIP FRENEAU
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RUTHERFORD MCDOWELL by EDGAR LEE MASTERS
CROSSING THE PLAINS by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER
WESTWARD HO! by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER
FACE TO FACE by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH
THE SETTLER: AMERICA IN THE MAKING by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET
THE FOUNDERS OF OHIO by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE
A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR) by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS