The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker / Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail.

by Ezra Meeker

Work, the Titan, Work, the friend,

Shaping the earth to a glorious end;

Draining the swamps and blasting the hills,

Doing whatever the spirit wills,

Rending a continent apart

To answer the dream of the Master heart.

Thank God for a world where none may shirk,

Thank God for the splendor of work.

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