By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined... History of the United States - Page 181by Elisha Benjamin Andrews - 1894Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...architecture of the snow. HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, APRIL 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...in God, in Godhead found.' HYMN: SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, April 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...Lost in God, in Godhead found. HYMN. SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, APKIL 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...19, 1836. It is simple and pleasing, and we are glad to find one extract which we can praise. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since... | |
| Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...Emerson, speaking of the first shot of the Revolution fired at the old bridge at Cuncord, says : " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, There once the embattled fanners Btood And fired the -hut heard round the world." H>w wonderfully the... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1850 - 388 pages
...DICKENS to this new world. ON THE COMPLETION OF THE MONUMENT AT CONCORD, APRIL, 1836. BY BW EMERSON. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since... | |
| Authors, American - 1853 - 504 pages
...event. When it was erected, Emerson wrote the following hymn for the ceremony : APRIL 19, 1836. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. "The foe long since... | |
| James Redpath - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 530 pages
... . •1^HI\v/)9f•^ '.'.-** )ln '2X0 WfiSfl® teW* 1 ' HARPER'S FERR\ r " By the rude Bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled ; Here once the embattled farmers Hood, And fired the mot heard round the World." RW EMERSON. JAMES... | |
| American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...physical resistance was made to the soldiers of George III. by his revolutionary colonies — " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Where once the embattled fiirmera stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." But within these... | |
| Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...EMERSON. 1803-. (Manual, pp. 478, 503, 531.) 285. HYMN SUNG AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since... | |
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