You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British Regulars fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again... The Atlantic Monthly - Page 301861Full view - About this book
| George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pages
...bridge would be first to fall, Who that day would be lying dead, Pierced by a British ruus.ket-balL 1 3 You know the rest. In the books you have read How...the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the tum of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. 14 So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pages
...fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fen* and farmyard-wall, Chasiug the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields...turn of the road. And only pausing to fire and load. 14 So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 254 pages
...fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, / , / / Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing...turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. Sfc- through the night rode Paul Eevere ; And so through the night went his. cry of alarm To every... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 144 pages
...fired and fled,— How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing...and load. So through the night rode Paul Revere; And BO through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm,— A cry of defiance... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 pages
...fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing...turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. 14. So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every... | |
| John Swett - 1868 - 246 pages
...him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. You know the rest. In the books you have read How...fire and load. So through the night rode Paul Revere; To every Middlesex village and farm,— A cry of defiance, and not of fear,— A voice in the darkness,... | |
| John Swett - 1867 - 252 pages
...— How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard-wall, Chasing tne red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields...fire and load. So through the night rode Paul Revere ; To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance, and not of fear, — A voice in the darkness,... | |
| Mother Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pages
...fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing...turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. 14. So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 pages
...fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees rt the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. So through the night rode Taul Revere ;... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 432 pages
...and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball. From behind each fence and farm-yard '.vail, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing...emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, » XV. So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every... | |
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