EARLY HISTORY OF CHERRY COUNTY, NEBRASKA
"THE PIONEERS"
By S. M. Richardson
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Into the fastness of the wilderness, Across the silent plains, these men of brawn Whose restless foot steps ever westward press, The vanguard of the mighty host marched on. Behind them lay a long remembered place, The land that nourished them in days agone; Before them with a fair and smiling face The mystic Land of Promise, lured them on. Think not the ruthless hand of war was stayed, Or famine, whilst they labored through the years; The price exacted for a home was paid With men's life blood and women's scalding tears. Had they not yearned to reach some distant goal, Or sought the heights of glory to attain, But been content to live with slumbering soul The mighty work of God had been in vain. For them the shouts and tumult fade away Ambition's leaping fires no longer burn, Remembered for a fleeting moment they, Unhonored and unsung, to dust return. No marble shaft proclaims their resting place With chiseled words, that all who pass may see But time's relentless hand cannot erase The record of their deeds from history. Throughout the years of time's unending flight, That rushes onward to Eternity, The land they wrought and builded in its might For them a living monument shall be. |
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