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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By HamlinGarland

1387 Pioneers

THEY rise to mastery of wind and snow;

They go like soldiers grimly into strife

To colonize the plain. They plough and sow,

And fertilize the sod with their own life,

As did the Indian and the buffalo.