O pioneers!
| dc.contributor | Library, of America |
| dc.contributor.author | Cather, Willa |
| dc.coverage.placeName | New York |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:55:10Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:55:10Z |
| dc.date.created | 1913 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-06-08 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1532 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1532 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1532 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.rights.uri | https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/page/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.title | O pioneers! |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.size | 327465 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<Author>Cather, Willa</Author>
<Title>O Pioneers!</Title>
<Edition>Early Novels and Stories. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1987</Edition>
<Date>1913</Date>
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<p> O PIONEERS!
<p> "Those fields, colored by various grain!"
<p> MICKIEWICZ
<p> TO THE MEMORY OF
<p> SARAH ORNE JEWETT
<p> IN WHOSE BEAUTIFUL AND DELICATE WORK
<p> THERE IS THE PERFECTION
<p> THAT ENDURES
PRAIRIE SPRING
<l>Evening and the flat land, </l>
<l>Rich and sombre and always silent; </l>
<l>The miles of fresh-plowed soil, </l>
<l>Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; </l>
<l>The growing wheat, the growing weeds, </l>
<l>The toiling horses, the tired men; </l>
<l>The long empty roads, </l>
<l>Sullen fires of sunset, fading, < . . .