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Show I "THE PIONEERS" I . BY WALT WHITMAN i Come my tac fared children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols t Have you your sharp edged axes! i'ioneers! 0, pionecn! For we cannot tarry here, We must inarch, my darlings; we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful, ainewy races; all the rest on ua depend, Pioneers! O, pioneers! 0, you youths, western youths, , So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you, western youths; see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers I O, pioneers 1 All the past we leave behind; We debouch noon s iiewer, mightier world, varied world j Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and of march, Pioneers! 0, pioneers! Orybuaughlers-oflhe-wesTl 0, you young and elder daughters! 0, you mothers and you wives! Never must yon be divided ; in your ranks you move united ; Pioneers! 0, pioneers! ' Has the night descended ? Was the road of late so tiresome t Did we stop discouraged, nodding on our Tayt Yet a passing hour I yield yon, in your tracks to pause oblivious, Pioneers I 0, pioneers! Till with the sound of trumpet, Far, far off the day break calls. Hark I How loud and clear I hear it wind! Swift, to the Iiead of the army 1 Swift, spring to your places ! ' Pioneers! O, pioneers! ......... |