V.5

COPYRIGHT 1889

By G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

This edition is published under arrangement with
G. P.Putnam's Sons, of New York and London.

ITATO A¶ BHT

THIS BOOK

IS DEDICATED, WITH HIS PERMISSION

ΤΟ

FRANCIS PARKMAN

TO WHOM AMERICANS WHO FEEL A PRIDE IN THE

PIONEER HISTORY OF THEIR COUNTRY

ARE SO GREATLY INDEBTED

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"O strange New World that yit wast never young,
Whose youth from thee by gripin' need was wrung,
Brown foundlin' o' the woods, whose baby-bed
Was prowled roun' by the Injun's cracklin' tread,
And who grew'st strong thru shifts an' wants an' pains,
Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains,
Who saw in vision their young Ishmel strain
With each hard hand a vassal ocean's mane;
Thou skilled by Freedom and by gret events

To pitch new states ez Old World men pitch tents,
Thou taught by fate to know Jehovah's plan,
Thet man's devices can't unmake a man.

Oh, my friends, thank your God, if you have one, that he
'Twixt the Old World and you set the gulf of a sea,
Be strong-backed, brown-handed, upright as your pines,
By the scale of a hemisphere shape your designs."