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... Heroic Ballads, with Poems of War and Patriotism - Page 294edited by - 1896 - 319 pagesFull 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...round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; 6 Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 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...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,... | |
| 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...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,... | |
| 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...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,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 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...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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream that seaward creeps. " On this green bank, by this soft strewn, We see to-day a votive stone, That... | |
| 1853 - 516 pages
...nrehed the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here onee the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world "The foe long...Time the ruined bridge 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... | |
| James Redpath - 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...breeze unfurled ; Here once the embattled farmers Hood, And fired the mot heard round the World." RW EMERSON. JAMES REDPATH. BOSTON: THAYER AND ELDRIDGE,... | |
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