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Long have we sung our noble pioneers, / Vanguard of progress, heralds of the time, / Guardians of industry and art sublime, / Leaders of man down all the brightening years! / To them the danger, to their wives the tears, / While we sit safely in the city's grime, / In old-world trammels of distress and crime, / Playing with words and thoughts, with doubts and fears.
Children of axe and gun! Ye take to-day / The baby steps of man's first, feeblest age, / While we, thought-seekers of the printed page, / We lead the world down its untrodden way! / Ours the drear wastes and leagues of empty waves, / The lonely deaths, the undiscovered graves.