PATHFINDER -- and Path-clincher! Who blazed the way, indeed, But more -- who made the eternal Fact Whereto a path had need; Who, while our Websters set at naught The thing that Was to Be, Whipped-out our halting, half-way map Full to the Other Sea! 'T was well that there were some could read The logic of the West! A Kansas-edged geography, Of provinces confessed, Became potential Union And took a Nation's span When God sent Opportunity And Benton found the Man! |