THE footsteps of a hundred years Have echoed, since o'er Braddock's Road Bold Putnam and the Pioneers Led History the way they strode. On wild Monongahela stream They launched the Mayflower of the West, A perfect State their civic dream, A new New World their pilgrim quest. When April robed the Buckeye trees Muskingum's bosky shore they trod; They pitched their tents, and to the breeze Flung freedom's star-flag, thanking God. As glides the Oyo's solemn flood, So fleeted their eventful years; Resurgent in their children's blood, They still live on -- the Pioneers. Their fame shrinks not to names and dates On votive stone, the prey of time; -- Behold where monumental States Immortalize their lives sublime! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHAT I'VE BELIEVED IN by JAMES GALVIN AUTUMN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON IVY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON CHILD OF MY HEART by EDWIN MARKHAM DOMESDAY BOOK: CONSIDER FREELAND by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE SPARROW HARK IN THE RAIN (ALEXANDER STEPHENS HEARS NEWS) by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |