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![]() | The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder | ![]() |
341
LA SALLE
EXPLORER OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Battling, through trackless lands, 'gainst savage foes;Striving, enduring, knowing the bitterness
Of foul betrayal, still in front he goes;
Onward through swamp and forest see him press,
Proud, silent, suffering, misunderstood;
The weight he bore, it seemed that no man could;
Then at the last, when the infernal stroke
Fell, 't was as if the silent leader spoke:
“This river I first traced to the far sea—
If monument I need, this let it be;
Then shall I live with the chief sons of time.
This is the path of empire: onward to empire climb!”
![]() | The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder | ![]() |