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" 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 bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.... "
Everyday Classics: Sixth Reader - Page 262
by Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1917 - 416 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; 10 That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our...heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare 15 The shaft we raise to them and thee. THE HUMBLE-BEE. BURLY, dozing...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee....
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their...redeem, When like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 3

Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, \Vhen like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit ! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their...
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The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1850 - 388 pages
...bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee....
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Homes of American Authors

Authors, American - 1853 - 516 pages
...has swept Down the dark stream that scawnnl creeps. " On this green bank, by this soft stream, We sec to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons nre gone. " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature...
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Homes of American Authors: Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive ...

Authors, American - 1853 - 478 pages
...has swept Down the dark stream that seaward creeps. "On this green bank, by this soft stream, We see to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sous are gone. " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time...
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Choice Specimens of American Literature

Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee....
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St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, Volume 44

Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1917 - 592 pages
...war to make the world "safe for democracy." Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his "Concord Hymn," invoked the Spirit that made those heroes dare To die and leave their children free — and it is this spirit that inspires the soldiers who are fighting in the cause of liberty to-day....
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Centennial Orations Commemorative of the Opening Events of the American ...

New England Historic Genealogical Society - Fourth of July orations - 1875 - 196 pages
...the world ;' and thus enable future visitors to realize, as far as may be, both actors and scene ; ' That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone.' " To properly carry out this plan, the town or its citizens may be called upon to provide additional...
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