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The Kansas Emigrants
WE cross the prairie as of old | |
| The pilgrims crossed the sea, | |
| To make the West, as they the East, | |
| The homestead of the free! | |
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| We go to rear a wall of men | 5 |
| On Freedom’s southern line, | |
| And plant beside the cotton-tree | |
| The rugged Northern pine! | |
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| We ’re flowing from our native hills | |
| As our free rivers flow; | 10 |
| The blessing of our Mother-land | |
| Is on us as we go. | |
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| We go to plant her common schools | |
| On distant prairie swells, | |
| And give the Sabbaths of the wild | 15 |
| The music of her bells. | |
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| Upbearing, like the Ark of old, | |
| The Bible in our van, | |
| We go to test the truth of God | |
| Against the fraud of man. | 20 |
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| No pause, nor rest, save where the streams | |
| That feed the Kansas run, | |
| Save where our Pilgrim gonfalon | |
| Shall flout the setting sun! | |
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| We ’ll tread the prairie as of old | 25 |
| Our fathers sailed the sea, | |
| And make the West, as they the East, | |
| The homestead of the free! | |
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