36 Ohio. Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
This state was the thoroughfare for all the races and all the people in their struggle to reach the west. Its foundations were laid by the very best brains of this country, when that great Amer- ican stream of settlers founded this composite Ohio. Wherever you look you will find the Ohio man; and as long as we have The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society to per- petuate the greatness of the Ohioan, and mark the places where they have accomplished their great acts, Ohio will live long in the history of the country.
DR. NAYLOR'S POEM-"THE HARDY PIONEER." |
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When the century old was dying And the new was waking to birth, When the shortening days were flying Like the shadows across the earth; When the speeding months were a-shiver In the fall of the fading year, To the banks of the bonny river Came the hardy pioneer.
No castle secure and massy, No orchard or field of grain, No meadowland smooth and grassy |
Found he in his vast domain; For the earth in its pristine glory Knew naught of the tiller's ban- And the solitude lisped the story Of a land unspoiled by man.
But the woods were his for the asking, And the streams at his door, and the fish - While the game on the hillsides basking Was the fruitful fact of his wish. And the nuts, in a fit of vagrance, Dropped into his waiting hand - And the fall flow'rs shed their fragrance Over all the bounteous land. |