THE FOUNDERS OF OHIO. APRIL, 1888.
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THE footsteps of a hundred years Have echoed, since o’er Braddock’s Road Bold Putnam and the Pioneers Led History the way they strode. On wild Monongahela stream They launched the Mayflower of the West, A perfect State their civic dream, A new New World their pilgrim quest. When April robed the Buckeye trees Muskingum’s bosky shore they trod; They pitched their tents and to the breeze Flung freedom’s star-flag, thanking God. As glides the Oyo’s solemn flood So fleeted their eventful years; Resurgent in their children’s blood, They still live on—the Pioneers. Their fame shrinks not to names and dates On votive stone, the prey of time;— Behold where monumental States Immortalize their lives sublime!