Annual Report and CollectionsState Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1888 After 1855 the society's annual reports were included in its Proceedings. |
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Página 282 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página 282 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 82 - If you had seen these roads before they were made, You would lift up both hands and bless General Wade.
Página 369 - The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine...
Página 323 - But if they go by way of the Ouisconsing, where for the present the chase of the buffalo is carried on, and where I have commenced an establishment, they will ruin the trade of which alone I am laying the foundation, on account of the great number of buffaloes which are taken there •every year, almost beyond belief.
Página 306 - Sable, and, as was generally the case with that nation, blended the military and mercantile professions by making their fort a factory for the Sioux.
Página 469 - Wherein apart a traveller stands, — One absent long from home and nation, In other lands ; And I, as he who stands and listens, Amid the twilight's chill and gloom, To hear, approaching in the distance, The train for home.
Página 452 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Página 67 - Rock river in high water is navigable about three hundred miles to what are called the Four Lakes.
Página 453 - Report, and that a copy of the same be forwarded to the family of the departed.