Historic Houses and Spots in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Near-by TownsGinn, 1898 - 144 pages |
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ADAMS HOUSES Adamses AMERICAN Ann Putnam APRIL 19 battle of Bunker battle of Lexington bearing beautiful became BENJAMIN THOMPSON Billerica birthplace born Brattle Street brick bridge British Bunker Hill Cabot Cambridge Captain Centre Street Charles River CHRIST CHURCH claim Colonel command Concord corner Danvers Danversport Eben Norton Horsford Emerson England erected Essex FAIRBANKS famous old Faneuil following inscription front granite Hall Harvard College honor house now standing hundred Hutchinson Indian interesting old house John Hancock JONATHAN Joseph Story Joseph Warren known lean-to Lincoln LOCKE HOUSE Longfellow Main Street MANSION marks Massachusetts Avenue Massachusetts Central Railroad Medford mile minute-men monument Norembega NOURSE HOUSE numbered occupied oldest opposite PARSON CAPEN HOUSE patriots PAUL REVERE president Putnam Quincy REVOLUTION road Roxbury Salem SAMUEL seen siege of Boston SOLDIERS South stone story overhang tablet stands tavern town Vassall visitor Wadsworth walls Washington Watertown William Winthrop Woburn
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Page 53 - 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 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, When...
Page 8 - Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The Father of his Country, dwelt. And yonder meadows broad and damp The fires of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt.
Page 112 - As ancient is this hostelry As any in the land may be, Built in the old Colonial day, When men lived in a grander way, With ampler hospitality; A kind of old Hobgoblin Hall, Now somewhat fallen to decay, With weather-stains upon the wall, And stairways worn, and crazy doors, And creaking and uneven floors, And chimneys huge, and tiled and talL A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams, Remote among the wooded hills!
Page 139 - Let it rise! let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Page 43 - No Berserk thirst of blood had they, No battle-joy was theirs, who set Against the alien bayonet Their homespun breasts in that old day. Their feet had trodden peaceful ways ; They loved not strife, they dreaded pain ; They saw not, what to us is plain, That God would make man's wrath his praise. No seers were...
Page 13 - OUR ancient church ! its lowly tower, Beneath the loftier spire, Is shadowed when the sunset hour Clothes the tall shaft in fire ; It sinks beyond the distant eye, Long ere the glittering vane, High wheeling in the western sky, Has faded o'er the plain. Like Sentinel and Nun, they keep Their vigil on the green ; One seems to guard, and one to weep, The dead that lie between ; And both roll out, so full and near, Their music's mingling waves, They shake the grass, whose pennoned spear Leans on the...
Page 93 - The signal lanterns of Paul Revere displayed in the steeple of this church April 18, 1775, warned the country of the march of the British troops to Lexington and Concord.
Page 62 - ... yielded him the choice. So, at the place where the deputy's land was to begin, there were two great stones, which they called the Two Brothers, in remembrance that they were brothers by their children's marriage, and did so brotherly agree, and for that a little creek near those stones was to part their lands.
Page 19 - The Aspens — one and all, With solemn groan And hollow moan Lament a comrade's fall ! A goodly Elm, of noble girth, That, thrice the human span — While on their variegated course The constant Seasons ran — Through gale, and hail, and fiery bolt, Had stood erect as Man. But now, like mortal Man himself, Struck down by hand of God, Or heathen Idol tumbled prone Beneath th...